The following reply was made to PR os-freebsd/488; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Marc Slemko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Patrick Boden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: os-freebsd/488: Very slow response times .
Date: Sun, 27 Apr 1997 00:21:46 -0600 (MDT)
On Sat, 26 Apr 1997, Patrick Boden wrote:
> >Environment:
> FreeBSD 2.1.5-RELEASE #0
> gcc 2.6.3
> Server generates around 12.000 unique hits a day and has aroud 700 Megs of
> transfer a day
> >Description:
> My error logs show :
> [Sun Apr 27 01:08:12 1997] access to
> /usr/local/www/virtual/video/public_html/cgi-video/videocounter.cgi failed
> for 208.154.142.3, reason: couldn't spawn child process
Please see the documentation, specifically the page at:
http://www.apache.org/docs/misc/perf-bsd44.html
You are probably either running into a file descriptor or process limit.
The CHILD_MAX and OPEN_MAX kernel config file options are the ones to look
at.
