>Number: 3602 >Category: mod_cgi >Synopsis: Not enough space: couldn't spawn child process >Confidential: no >Severity: critical >Priority: medium >Responsible: apache >State: open >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: apache >Arrival-Date: Tue Dec 29 00:50:01 PST 1998 >Last-Modified: >Originator: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Organization: apache >Release: 1.3.3 >Environment: Solaris 5.6 Generic_105181-11 sun4m sparc SUNW,SPARCstation-5 gcc version 2.8.1
>Description: >From time to time, server refuses to execute CGI-scripts (e.g. counters, mailforms etc..) and reports in the error-log: (12)Not enough space: couldn't spawn child process: .../blabla.cgi The server DEFINITELY has no lack of memory or disk space. The client gets an 'Internal Server Error'. The times this problem occurs are completely random, there's no pattern. >How-To-Repeat: The problem is intermittent, so.. The counter on http://www.soirillustre.be fails from time to time >Fix: No >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: [In order for any reply to be added to the PR database, ] [you need to include <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> in the Cc line ] [and leave the subject line UNCHANGED. This is not done] [automatically because of the potential for mail loops. ] [If you do not include this Cc, your reply may be ig- ] [nored unless you are responding to an explicit request ] [from a developer. ] [Reply only with text; DO NOT SEND ATTACHMENTS! ]
