From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 9 09:46:14 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA28707 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 9 Nov 1998 09:46:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from server.elehost.com ([206.222.66.90]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA28695 for ; Mon, 9 Nov 1998 09:46:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from paul@elehost.com) Received: from pauler.home.com (cgowave-42-76.cgocable.net [24.226.42.76]) by server.elehost.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA27686; Mon, 9 Nov 1998 12:54:16 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <4.1.19981109124249.00966410@mail.elehost.com> X-Sender: paul@mail.elehost.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Mon, 09 Nov 1998 12:47:44 -0500 To: Arjan van Staalduijnen From: Paul MacKenzie Subject: Re: Couldn't spawn child process - Apache webserver problem on FreeBSD system. Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I am still experiencing similar problems with FreeBSD 2.2.6 and Apache 1.3.3 I have tried what seems to be everything with the DAMON in login.conf (and i did compile the DB afterwards). Then, I went and tried the ULIMIT setting before starting the program in the BASH shell. This seems to help, but after 1 week without fail it will eventually die and fall back to the could not spawn error... Any suggestions? should I add more memory (the system has 96MB sdram right now and I start about 45 servers on the apache to begin with) any help with diagnosing memory problems would be appreciated Thanks On Wed, 29 Jul 1998, Arjan van Staalduijnen wrote: > I'm using a system running Apache 1.3.0 and FreeBSD 2.2.6. The > webserver of this system is reporting internal server errors from time > to time, and when it is it is reporting loads of them. The server > errorlogs show the error 'Resource temporarily unavailable: couldn't > spawn child process' for the Perl-script it is trying to execute. You need to tune the process limits for `daemon' in /etc/login.conf. Poke around on www.apache.org and in the www.freebsd.org mail archives, there are instructions for performance-tuning like this. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message "Compassion is the only true answer to suffering" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message