[NTLUG:Discuss] apache error message

[David Camm]

this afternoon, i found the several messages in apache's error log:

couldn't spawn child process

which was associated with the execution of a cgi program which then
failed with a 500 returncode.

these messages occured for about 2 minutes, and have not recurred since.

am i correct in assuming that i exceeded the MaxClients number at those
times, or is there some other problem?  

ps - we've been running apache since april '95 and have never seen this
before.

david camm
@dvanced web systems