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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!alpha.sky.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-chi-13.sprintlink.net!news.dca.net!dca.net!awhite From: Andrew White <awhite@dca.net> Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.www.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Apache/BSDI CGI spawning problem Date: Wed, 7 Aug 1996 11:27:37 -0400 Organization: DCANet - Delaware Common Access Network Lines: 35 Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.91.960807111241.1623D@dca.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: global.dca.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: apache-users@apache.org Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.infosystems.www.misc:42472 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:4516 Hello fellow Apache users. I'm running an Apache 1.1.1 web server under BSDI 2.1, and have recently started seeing a problem. The problem is that, after the htttpd process has been running for some length of time, accesses to ALL cgi scripts (on all virtual hosts) quit working. The message that shows up in the error log looks like: [Wed Aug 7 11:11:00 1996] access to /local/etc/httpd/cgi-bin/nph-count\ failed for faith.dca.net, reason: couldn't spawn child process Sending a SIGHUP to the httpd process ID fixes the problem for a short while. To attempt to address this problem, I bumped up the MinSpareServers and MaxSpareServers in my Apache config files, and recompiled my BSDI kernel and increased the value of MAXUSERS to 128. I also have tried starting the server with: csh -c "unlimit -h; /local/etc/httpd/httpd &" To attempt to remove any shell-based restrictions. Unfortunately, none of these attempted solutions have fixed the problem. If any other administrator knows what the problem is/might be, I'd appreciate hearing from you. If you post a follow-up to a newsgroup, please favor me with an e-mail copy of your follow-up. -Andrew White webmaster@www.dca.net Andrew White | DCANet: Internet Access for the Delaware Valley andrew@dca.net | Offering dialup, ISDN, and dedicated Internet access (302) 654-1019 | in the 215/302/610 area codes. http://andrew.white.org/ | e-mail: info@dca.net web: http://www.dca.net/