The following reply was made to PR os-other/1654; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Michael Shalayeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marc Slemko) Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: os-other/1654: fails to fork off a cgi Date: Tue, 13 Jan 1998 21:59:45 -0500 (EST) Making, drinking tea and reading an opus magnum from Marc Slemko: > On 12 Jan 1998, Michael Shalayeff wrote: > > > >How-To-Repeat: > > run apache for a busy site with a lot of cgi calls, hits and vhosts under > > openbsd, experience 'unable to spaw child process' messages > > Erm... I'm not really sure why it should be necessary to retry forking. > If it fails once, then it is probably due to limits such as the number of > file descriptors or processes. The answer is to fix the limitation, not > to keep retrying until you can work around it. Have you looked at doing > this? when this happens i have not reached 50% limit on file descriptors, processes, memory and all the other system resources. > Any OS that requires trying multiple times for no reason before it works > would be very broken... maybe... cu
