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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.erols.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!newsfeed1.aimnet.com!ns1.aplatform.com!pagesat.net!news.digicity.net!usenet From: Damien Thorn <damien@digicity.net> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Apache Server Error: Cannot Spawn Child Process Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 10:50:39 -0700 Organization: Digital City Communications, Inc. Lines: 19 Message-ID: <3263CEEF.1F78@digicity.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: sidewinder.digicity.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.01 (Win16; I) This may seem off topic, but I suspect the problem to be related to the underlying FreeBSD 2.1.0R on our web server. Basically, without much warning, all of our CGI programs error out more often than they run - both Perl scripts and compiled C. The error logged by the Apache httpd is that it couldn't spawn the child process. The CGI stuff runs the gamut from custom to standards like chiemail, counters and redirect. System is a Pentium 133 with 64 Meg. Kernel is generic (which I half suspect may be the issue). A ps shows that all combined processes are using about 50% of the memory, and very little CPU resources. Has anyone seen this problem? Any clues why it would suddenly begin? Is it related perhaps to an increase in server traffic? Really need some help with this one. Thanks! Damien