[NTLUG:Discuss] apache error message

[MadHat]

David Camm wrote:
> 
> 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.

coould be that, which by default is hardcoded ro 512, and can be set
anywhere under that in the conf files.  

Or it could be the number open files, depending on the kernel, it can be
set using the /proc file system, or through recompiling the kernel.

Without more details I would agree and say the first.


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MadHat