On my problem with Apache being unable to spawn cgi childs, Mark Bixby
suggested a lack of contiguous free disc space.

>2) The more likely cause is a lack of sufficient contiguous transient disk
>space.  The amount and quality of transient space can vary over time, and
this
>would explain the intermittent nature of your problem.  I recommend running
>DISCFREE.PUB.SYS and seeing whether your disks are excessively fragmented.

Well I decided to take action to create more contiguous free disc space
using the CONTIGVOL command in the VOLUTIL program. When i do help
CONTIGVOL, it says:

Syntax:

 volutil: CONTIGVOL [VOL=][sname:]vname | ldev
                    [[SIZE=]sectors]
                    [[TIMEOUT=]minutes]
                    [;TRANSIENTOK][;UNRESTRICTED]

Example:

 volutil: CONTIGVOL sample_set:sample_member 60000 20 ;unrestricted

I wondered what the SIZE, TIMOUT, TRANSIENTOK and UNRESTRICTED would mean,
so I tried to look it up in the Volume management manual. To my surprise,
this volutil command was not covered on both the documentation on CD as
well as the Online documentation at
http://docs.hp.com/mpeix/onlinedocs/32650-90491/32650-90491.html

Does anyone know what these parameters mean or where I can find
documentation.
Thanks.
Peter

Peter van Boheemen
Wageningen University Library
Wageningen, The Netherlands