mod_cgi/6986: I have Internal Server Error .

[claudio cerda <cc...@cnt.telsur.cl>]

>Number:         6986
>Category:       mod_cgi
>Synopsis:       I have Internal Server Error .
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    apache
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   apache
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Dec 15 17:20:01 PST 2000
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     ccerda@cnt.telsur.cl
>Release:        Apache/1.3.12 (Unix)
>Organization:
apache
>Environment:
SunOS jerry 5.6 Generic_105181-22 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-60
Reading specs from /usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-sun-solaris2.5.1/2.95.1/specs
gcc version 2.95.1 19990816 (release)
>Description:
I have virtual hosts , using cgi and i have servlets and PHP:
Perl and Miva (www.miva.com) 
mod_jserv and php4_module

Some times , the server send the error :
Internal Server Error .
For websites using cgi , NOT for servlets or php.
I see the error logs , for this web site , and the error is :
[Fri Dec 15 17:58:24 2000] [error] [client 216.155.64.224] (12)Not enough space:
 couldn't spawn child process: /export/home/webhosting/html/cgi-bin/pagina3/scri
pt.
 For web site executing perl (perl, version 5.004_05)

[Fri Dec 15 18:30:27 2000] [error] [client 216.155.68.218] (12)Not enough space:
 couldn't spawn child process: /export/home/httpd/cgi-bin/miva
 For web site executing miva 

The machine have 2 cpu:
SUNW,UltraSPARC-II (upaid 2 impl 0x11 ver 0xa0 clock 450 MHz)
512 RAM

df -k
Filesystem            kbytes    used   avail capacity  Mounted on
/dev/md/dsk/d0       1489367 1091865  337928    77%    /
/proc                      0       0       0     0%    /proc
fd                         0       0       0     0%    /dev/fd
/dev/md/dsk/d7       15374007 4642402 10577865    31%    /export/home
swap                  254688       8  254680     1%    /tmp


>How-To-Repeat:
http://www.surnet.cl
>Fix:
May be , increment the swap area or memory shared .
>Release-Note:
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 >swap -s
 total: 73984k bytes allocated + 103840k reserved = 177824k used, 222600k availab
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