Date: Fri, 31 Jan 1997 18:34:38 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Shady <rls@mail.id.net> To: nc@ai.net (Network Coordinator) Cc: rg@gds.de, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 300 000 hits / day Message-ID: <199701312334.SAA02048@server.id.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970131172915.28104B-100000@alyssa.ai.net> from Network Coordinator at "Jan 31, 97 05:30:19 pm"
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> > For that reason I configured a new dual P5 with 2 x P5, 200 MHz
> > (Gigabyte Board) with 3.0-972401-SNAP SMP. This is system has
> > been running without any problem with about 50 virtual www servers and
> > about 10 000 hits a day.
> >
> > I changed the values in kernel tha same way also on the new server:
> > maxusers 100
> > options CHILD_MAX=512
> > options OPEN_MAX=512
> >
> > Now, when I transfer the 300 000 hits server on this machine half of
> > the CGIs can not be started. The error log of the server shows:
> > #--------
> > [Fri Jan 31 19:09:00 1997] access to /usr/home/pdecker/cgi/show_dat.pl
> > failed for c4.hrz.uni-giessen.de, reason: couldn't spawn child
> > process
> > #---------
> > The error log is full of theses messages.
> > What else can be the cause that the server cannot start the child
> > processes?
I've had alot of problems with 3.0 Snaps and allocating memory. We tried
running a large volume news server on it and it crashed quite frequently.
You may want to try downgrading the OS & see if that fixes the problem,
of course, you'll be SMP'less but... It will run.
-- Rob
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