[error] (12)Not enough space: fork: Unable to fork new process

[Julian Grunnell <jg...@firstnet.net.uk>]

Hi can someone help please with the above error messages?

Platform:
Sun E220R Sparc 256mb Ram / 18gb HD.

Apache:
Compiled-in modules:
  http_core.c
  mod_env.c
  mod_log_config.c
  mod_mime.c
  mod_negotiation.c
  mod_status.c
  mod_include.c
  mod_autoindex.c
  mod_dir.c
  mod_cgi.c
  mod_asis.c
  mod_imap.c
  mod_actions.c
  mod_userdir.c
  mod_alias.c
  mod_rewrite.c
  mod_access.c
  mod_auth.c
  mod_setenvif.c
  mod_ssl.c
  mod_php4.c

I'm getting the error messages now and again, they also appear in the
/var/adm/messages file and the ftp logs. The server hosts approx. 700 sites.
Apache does not always die when this happens usually it just carries on
after a short delay. I have seen a few references to this being that another
process - maybe a cgi script? - is running away with itself eating up all
available memory and causing this?

Anyone any other ideas / tests to confirm this?

Thanks in advance - Julian.

- Julian Grunnell, 2nd Line Technical Support - Firstnet Services Limited
- tel: 0113 292 7736 : http://www.firstnet.net.uk
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Re: [error] (12)Not enough space: fork: Unable to fork new process

["MUTTON, PETER" <pe...@bell.ca>]

I've had this when (1) I've run out of memory, and (2) when the
pid table is full.  In the latter case a rogue program was
constantly forked child processes & not picking-up the message
when they die.  The result was >200 zombies.

Peter

Julian Grunnell wrote:
> 
> Hi can someone help please with the above error messages?
> 
> Platform:
> Sun E220R Sparc 256mb Ram / 18gb HD.
> 
> Apache:
> Compiled-in modules:
>   http_core.c
>   mod_env.c
>   mod_log_config.c
>   mod_mime.c
>   mod_negotiation.c
>   mod_status.c
>   mod_include.c
>   mod_autoindex.c
>   mod_dir.c
>   mod_cgi.c
>   mod_asis.c
>   mod_imap.c
>   mod_actions.c
>   mod_userdir.c
>   mod_alias.c
>   mod_rewrite.c
>   mod_access.c
>   mod_auth.c
>   mod_setenvif.c
>   mod_ssl.c
>   mod_php4.c
> 
> I'm getting the error messages now and again, they also appear in the
> /var/adm/messages file and the ftp logs. The server hosts approx. 700 sites.
> Apache does not always die when this happens usually it just carries on
> after a short delay. I have seen a few references to this being that another
> process - maybe a cgi script? - is running away with itself eating up all
> available memory and causing this?
> 
> Anyone any other ideas / tests to confirm this?
> 
> Thanks in advance - Julian.
> 
> - Julian Grunnell, 2nd Line Technical Support - Firstnet Services Limited
> - tel: 0113 292 7736 : http://www.firstnet.net.uk
> - [ This message subject to: http://www.firstnet.net.uk/disclaimer.html ]
> 
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