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Posted to dev@httpd.apache.org by Dean Gaudet <dg...@arctic.org> on 1998/07/04 20:26:43 UTC
Re: Resurce Temporarily Unavailable : Could not spawn child process for ..
Piotr, I'm not a freebsd user... but many of the other developers are, so
I cc'd them on this.
Dean
On Thu, 2 Jul 1998, Piotr A. Sygula wrote:
> Dear Dean,
> I'm running FreeBSD 3.0-971225-SNAP release with Apache 1.3b5 on a
> 200Mhz Pentium Pro with 128MB of RAM. I'm running into spawnig problems
> when the server reaches a certain level of usage. I know that I have
> plenty of system resources left avilable...
>
> >From looking over the problem reports, I was pointed to the FDLIMIT
> dilemma. I edited Configuration in the src subdir of the apache dist.
> tree by changing
>
> EXTRA_CFLAGS=
> to EXTRA_CFLAGS=-DFD_SETSIZE=4096
>
> Then I ran Configure and then make. Compilation went with no prob. so I
> copied the new executable, and HUPpped the parent process.
> Unfortunately, that did not fix the problem, the errors still occur as
> though nothing changed.
>
> My question is : Did I screw up somewhere, or maybe skipped a vital step
> ? Do I need to screw with libc, or is my FreeBSD current enough to
> where I don't have to worry about it ?
>
> Please help, I've been battling this problem for the past three weeks,
> and now my customers are getting peaved b/c their CGIs only run
> sometimes. I feel like an idiot cause I don't know what to tell them.
>
> Could you please walk me through upping the FDLIMIT (if you think that
> that is the root of the problem) ?
>
> Thank you kindly in advance...
>
> --
> ----
> Piotr A. Sygula
> President - NetShapers, Inc.
>
>
>
Re: Resurce Temporarily Unavailable : Could not spawn child process for ..
Posted by Ben Laurie <be...@algroup.co.uk>.
Dean Gaudet wrote:
>
> Piotr, I'm not a freebsd user... but many of the other developers are, so
> I cc'd them on this.
>
> Dean
>
> On Thu, 2 Jul 1998, Piotr A. Sygula wrote:
>
> > Dear Dean,
> > I'm running FreeBSD 3.0-971225-SNAP release with Apache 1.3b5 on a
> > 200Mhz Pentium Pro with 128MB of RAM. I'm running into spawnig problems
> > when the server reaches a certain level of usage. I know that I have
> > plenty of system resources left avilable...
> >
> > >From looking over the problem reports, I was pointed to the FDLIMIT
> > dilemma. I edited Configuration in the src subdir of the apache dist.
> > tree by changing
> >
> > EXTRA_CFLAGS=
> > to EXTRA_CFLAGS=-DFD_SETSIZE=4096
> >
> > Then I ran Configure and then make. Compilation went with no prob. so I
> > copied the new executable, and HUPpped the parent process.
Err ... HUPing won't load the new binary, will it?
> > Unfortunately, that did not fix the problem, the errors still occur as
> > though nothing changed.
> >
> > My question is : Did I screw up somewhere, or maybe skipped a vital step
> > ? Do I need to screw with libc, or is my FreeBSD current enough to
> > where I don't have to worry about it ?
> >
> > Please help, I've been battling this problem for the past three weeks,
> > and now my customers are getting peaved b/c their CGIs only run
> > sometimes. I feel like an idiot cause I don't know what to tell them.
> >
> > Could you please walk me through upping the FDLIMIT (if you think that
> > that is the root of the problem) ?
> >
> > Thank you kindly in advance...
I had this problem on a FreeBSD box. Turned out it was coz someone had
launched Apache from a tcsh shell. tcsh sets the process limit to 64 by
default, it seems.
Cheers,
Ben.
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Re: Resurce Temporarily Unavailable : Could not spawn child process for ..
Posted by Dirk-Willem van Gulik <di...@jrc.it>.
Did you check 'ulimit' ? On 3.0 these are quite limited compared to older
vrsions. You might want to run 'ulimit -a' from a CGI and from the eff.
user id of the server to see what it is set to.
Dw.
On Sat, 4 Jul 1998, Dean Gaudet wrote:
> Piotr, I'm not a freebsd user... but many of the other developers are, so
> I cc'd them on this.
>
> Dean
>
> On Thu, 2 Jul 1998, Piotr A. Sygula wrote:
>
> > Dear Dean,
> > I'm running FreeBSD 3.0-971225-SNAP release with Apache 1.3b5 on a
> > 200Mhz Pentium Pro with 128MB of RAM. I'm running into spawnig problems
> > when the server reaches a certain level of usage. I know that I have
> > plenty of system resources left avilable...
> >
> > >From looking over the problem reports, I was pointed to the FDLIMIT
> > dilemma. I edited Configuration in the src subdir of the apache dist.
> > tree by changing
> >
> > EXTRA_CFLAGS=
> > to EXTRA_CFLAGS=-DFD_SETSIZE=4096
> >
> > Then I ran Configure and then make. Compilation went with no prob. so I
> > copied the new executable, and HUPpped the parent process.
> > Unfortunately, that did not fix the problem, the errors still occur as
> > though nothing changed.
> >
> > My question is : Did I screw up somewhere, or maybe skipped a vital step
> > ? Do I need to screw with libc, or is my FreeBSD current enough to
> > where I don't have to worry about it ?
> >
> > Please help, I've been battling this problem for the past three weeks,
> > and now my customers are getting peaved b/c their CGIs only run
> > sometimes. I feel like an idiot cause I don't know what to tell them.
> >
> > Could you please walk me through upping the FDLIMIT (if you think that
> > that is the root of the problem) ?
> >
> > Thank you kindly in advance...
> >
> > --
> > ----
> > Piotr A. Sygula
> > President - NetShapers, Inc.
> >
> >
> >
>
>
Re: Resurce Temporarily Unavailable : Could not spawn child process for ..
Posted by Marc Slemko <ma...@znep.com>.
This is probably due to resource limits, specified in /etc/login.conf.
Erm... perhaps not in that version of FreeBSD, but it is in current 2.2
and 3.0-current FreeBSD's.
Run a "ulimit -a" from the shell (assuming a Bourne shell) before starting
Apache, and that will show you the resource limits. The "max user
processes" is the main one to worry about.
On Sat, 4 Jul 1998, Dean Gaudet wrote:
> Piotr, I'm not a freebsd user... but many of the other developers are, so
> I cc'd them on this.
>
> Dean
>
> On Thu, 2 Jul 1998, Piotr A. Sygula wrote:
>
> > Dear Dean,
> > I'm running FreeBSD 3.0-971225-SNAP release with Apache 1.3b5 on a
> > 200Mhz Pentium Pro with 128MB of RAM. I'm running into spawnig problems
> > when the server reaches a certain level of usage. I know that I have
> > plenty of system resources left avilable...
> >
> > >From looking over the problem reports, I was pointed to the FDLIMIT
> > dilemma. I edited Configuration in the src subdir of the apache dist.
> > tree by changing
> >
> > EXTRA_CFLAGS=
> > to EXTRA_CFLAGS=-DFD_SETSIZE=4096
> >
> > Then I ran Configure and then make. Compilation went with no prob. so I
> > copied the new executable, and HUPpped the parent process.
> > Unfortunately, that did not fix the problem, the errors still occur as
> > though nothing changed.
> >
> > My question is : Did I screw up somewhere, or maybe skipped a vital step
> > ? Do I need to screw with libc, or is my FreeBSD current enough to
> > where I don't have to worry about it ?
> >
> > Please help, I've been battling this problem for the past three weeks,
> > and now my customers are getting peaved b/c their CGIs only run
> > sometimes. I feel like an idiot cause I don't know what to tell them.
> >
> > Could you please walk me through upping the FDLIMIT (if you think that
> > that is the root of the problem) ?
> >
> > Thank you kindly in advance...
> >
> > --
> > ----
> > Piotr A. Sygula
> > President - NetShapers, Inc.
> >
> >
> >
>
>