Date: Wed, 04 Aug 1999 16:54:40 -0500 From: Carol Deihl <carol@tinker.com> To: Luis Moreno <luis@cantv.net> Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Troubles with Apache on FreeBSD Message-ID: <37A8B6A0.886134D9@tinker.com> References: <37A8AF77.7515952F@cantv.net>
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Hi Luis, It's likely that the "limit" for number of processes is being exceeded. From a csh (not an sh), as root, execute these commands: limit limit -h The "-h" version gives the hard limits that are compiled in the kernel, while the plain version gives the "soft" limits (e.g. what it's running with now). When I ran into this same problem, I foung that the hard limit for maxproc was 2067, while the soft limit was only 64. The solution is to start your web server from a csh script (not an sh script, since sh on 2.2.x FBSD doesn't have a limit command). In the script, put something like limit maxproc 1024 (or some value less than the number you found with limit -h) before the command that starts the web server. This resolved our problem. Interesting, when we ran into the problem, it was when there were about 133 processes running (similar to your 126). Hope this helps, Carol Luis Moreno wrote: >=20 > Hello there. >=20 > I=B4m runing Apache Web Server/1.3.0 with Ben-SSL/1.19 and > FrontPage/3.0.4.2 PHP/3.0.6 on FreeBSD 2.2.6 >=20 > A snapshot of the head of top command is like this: > Last pid: 8175; load averages: 0.71, 0.19, 0.06 > 17:15:22 > 126 processes: 2 running, 124 sleeping CPU states: 3.1% user, 0.0% > nice, 3.5% system, 1.2% interrupt, 92.2% idle > Mem: 137M Active, 44M Inact, 30M Wired, 39M Cache, 8348K Buf, 788K Free > Swap: 512M Total, 64K Used, 512M Free >=20 > The server seems to be ok, but eventualy I=B4m geting problems with the > execution of cgi script=B4s. This is the error message from the error > Apache logs > [Wed Aug 4 17:13:17 1999] [error] (35)Resource temporarily unavailable= : > couldn't spawn child process: /var/www/cgi-bin/Count.cgi >=20 > Did anybody get=B4s the same? >=20 > Thanks in advance for yor help. >=20 > Luis. >=20 --=20 Carol Deihl - carol@tinker.com Shrier and Deihl - Unix Network Admin and Internet Software Development http://www.tinker.com/ - Tinker Internet Services To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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