Re: OpenBSD and Apache

["Todd C. Miller" <Todd.Miller@courtesan.com>]

There are per-user limits for file descriptors and number of processes.
You may be able to increase those by using ulimit in a subshell
before starting apache.  See sh(1) for a description of ulimit.

 - todd

In message <Pine.GSO.3.96.971203152749.24340A-100000@shaggy.xsite.net>
	so spake Justin Grudzien (mailer):

> I am currently running OpenBSD 2.1 with apache 1.2 and am getting a weird
> error.
> 
> [Wed Dec  3 11:39:16 1997] access to\
> /usr/ns-home/docs/literary-liaisons.com/cgi-bin/contact.cgi failed for\
> bryan.alphachannel.com, reason: couldn't spawn child process
> 
> Now there are over 2000 file descriptors open as reported to me by fstat
> so I am wondering if I have hit some kind of limit. Now this happens
> everytime a cgi-script is run. If I reboot the file descriptor count goes
> down to like 1000 for an hour. Now I have submitted this to the apache
> people but I wanted to see if anyone here could answer some questions and
> give me some ideas.
> 
> This is what I have done. I have recompiled the kernel a dozen time
> changing the maxusers setting and the various other setting that have to
> do with maxusers. I do not speciffically see a # of file descriptors
> limit, but if it has anything to do with maxusers, like FreeBSD then I
> have changed all I can. 
> 
> ANy info would be appreciated because I would hate to have to swich from
> OpenBSD to some other lame unix.
> 	Justin
> 
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