Re: Unable to spawn a child process..

From: Manfred Fandel (mf@fandel.com)
Date: Fri Oct 15 1999 - 10:48:46 EST

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Hi,
On Thu, Oct 14, 1999 at 06:18:42PM -0400, Driverzone.com wrote:
> Hi Everybody,
>
> Been running msql for several weeks now with no problems,
> until today that is. Everytime someone accessed a page with
> msql code in it they got a error 500 message with the following
> entry in the error log file:
>
> [Thu Oct 14 12:08:10 1999] [error] [client 194.216.55.8] (35)Resource temporarily unavailable: couldn't spawn child process: /usr/local/etc/httpd/cgi-bin/w3-msql
...
>
> I'm not sure if it is a msql issue or a OS issue ???
I think its an OS issue, because the same happended to me, if there are to
much open files from one process (e.g. too many open logfiles simultanesly,
in cause of much virt. Webservers of the Apache). Linux limits it to max. of
256 open FD per process. I don't know about BSD, but I think there is
something similar !

Good Luck !

Manfred Fandel

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