Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 16:07:33 -0400 (EDT) From: Steve Hovey <shovey@buffnet.net> To: Prime Internet Network <webmaster@primenetwork.net> Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Can't Spawn Child Process Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9904081606480.2691-100000@buffnet11.buffnet.net> In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19990408111841.0131c118@mail.primenetwork.net>
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You need to sex maxusers high in the config and recompile, and you need to check the login.conf to make sure that the max child and max open are large for the userid it runs as and/or is invoked by On Thu, 8 Apr 1999, Prime Internet Network wrote: > > I am running FreeBSD 2.2.6 and I am having this problem all the time. > > 'Error - server couldn't spawn child process' in my apache logs. > > Then sure enough I check to see if CGI's are working and they are all dead. > > The server is a high load web hosting machine and has 256MB of RAM, the > processor load is only ever at 2-3%. > > IS there anyplace special that I need to look at or modify to make this > thing handle more processes without quiting on me. > > One small note to this problem... When I stop and then restart the Apache > server the problem will go away for about 20 minutes and then come back. > It doesn't seem to effect anything on the system but the running of CGI > processes. > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message > ------------------------------------------------------------------ Steve Hovey Chief Network Administrator BuffNET More Than Just a Connection! ------------------------------------------------------------------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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