On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, Don Hatch wrote: > I have a client whose cgi scripts have recently stopped working. The error > log gives this error: > > [error][client ip address](24)Too many open files: counldn't spawn child > process: /path/to/cgi-bin/script.cgi > > Does anyone have any suggestions? Where would I start looking? I'm running > Debian 2.1 and I checked a couple of files like /etc/limits but everything is > still commented out. Any help is appreciated. > > Thanks, > > Don Hatch > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > This sounds like you have run into kernel limits.. if you run 2.2.x kernels check out the files beneath
/proc/sys/fs especially file-max and inode-max Roger Abrahamsson
