The following reply was made to PR mod_cern_meta/3366; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Marc Slemko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Kevin Goddard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Apache bugs database <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: mod_cern_meta/3366: I am getting this - (11)Resource temporarily unavailable: couldn't spawn child process - on very busy servers Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1998 17:02:02 -0800 (PST) On Sun, 8 Nov 1998, Kevin Goddard wrote: > >How many processes are running at the time, both total and for the user > >Apache runs as? > > 323 for all of the users > 293 for nobody (the user Apache runs as) And this is when the problem is happening? So "ps ax | wc" will show those numbers? Are you sure that the ulimits you show are the ones set when Apache is started? > >What does cat /proc/sys/kernel/file-max show? > 1024 > > >Do you have any reason to think this is anything other than Linux simply > >running into file or process number restrictions? Linux has some very > >annoying such restrictions that can be a pain to remove. > Yeah I have removed as many file limits as I could find. Unfortunatly the 3 > other machines are running the exact same config without the problem popping > up. > Either it is a hard ware problem with the PII 400's or it is something I > cannot figure. This is most likely a Linux problem. The other servers may well have slightly different traffic distribution, different numbers of CGIs, etc.
