On Fri, 14 Apr 2000, Trevor Jennings wrote:

> Hi,
> 
>  I am just wondering if someone can help me out here!! How do you increase
> resources under linux? Reason for asking is that I am running apache 1.3.3
> under redhat and I am repeatedly getting the following errors:-
> 
> [Fri Apr 14 08:30:33 2000] [error] [client 24.93.158.219] (11)Resource
> temporarily unavailable: couldn't spawn child process:
> /usr/local/apache/cgi-bin/cgiwrap
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
>  - Trevor
> 

The default max number of processes in the 2.2 kernels is 2560. You can
increase this by editing /usr/src/linux/include/linux/tasks.h

Look for the line that begins with:

#define NR_TASKS        2560

Increase this value up to a maximum of 4092 and then recompile the kernel.

Hope this helps.

Steve

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