Date: Mon, 09 Nov 1998 12:47:44 -0500 From: Paul MacKenzie <paul@elehost.com> To: Arjan van Staalduijnen <A.vanStaalduijnen@nedstat.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Couldn't spawn child process - Apache webserver problem on FreeBSD system. Message-ID: <4.1.19981109124249.00966410@mail.elehost.com>
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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
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