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To: Joe McGuckin <joe@ns.via.net>
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Date: Fri, 08 Dec 95 17:24:38 PST
From: Ben Jackson <bjj@sequent.com>
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In message <199512082252.OAA07846@ns.via.net> , you wrote:
> 
> I have a 100MHZ pentium that I use as a web and FTP server. Recently
> we've been seeing Apache complaining about "can't spawn process". After
> making it print out errno from the failing fork(), we're getting EAGAIN.

Probably the per-user process limit.  Try adding an appropriate "unlimit"
in your Apache startup script.  I'd beware of a plain "unlimit", since
some programs (including shells) don't handle it gracefully.

--Ben