cgi/apache message

["Simison, Matthew" <ma...@conxion.net>]

I have not been able to find out what is the cause of this error message in
the error.log.

12)Not enough space: couldn't spawn child process:
/www/place/cgi-bin/download.cgi

it is completely random. The server is an E450, 4meg ram, 4 400MHz cpu, 20
18 gig drives.
Solaris 2.6, apache 1.3.9, cpu's are not taxed and memory is fine.

What "space" is it referring to?

Matt

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Re: cgi/apache message

[David McCabe <da...@mcgill.ca>]

"Simison, Matthew" wrote:
> 
> I have not been able to find out what is the cause of this error message in
> the error.log.
> 
> 12)Not enough space: couldn't spawn child process:
> /www/place/cgi-bin/download.cgi
> 
> it is completely random. The server is an E450, 4meg ram, 4 400MHz cpu, 20
> 18 gig drives.
> Solaris 2.6, apache 1.3.9, cpu's are not taxed and memory is fine.
> 
> What "space" is it referring to?

Usually, this is referring to one of the "limits" imposed on the user running
the server. It could be a file limit, or a memory limit, etc, although that
looks like a "max number of processes" limit. Check with your sysadmin to see if
there are limits on the non-root users on the system. If there are, you will
need to set them higher for your webserver user. If you are the sysadmin, check
into the limit (and/or ulimit) command. You should have a man page for at least
one of them. :)


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Network and Communications Services, McGill University
Montreal, Quebec, Canada        david.mccabe@mcgill.ca

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