I seem to vaguely recall issues related to apache, forking, and moderately
fragmented disks.
How fragmented are your disks?
At 12:45 PM 2002-08-31, Donna Garverick wrote:
>hi all (2 of us :-)
>
>all of a sudden, i've got a problem with apache on my 6.5pp3 system.
>the apache version 1.3.9....and of course, nothing has change :-)
>(isn't it always that way....)
>
>anyhow, if you try to connect to this machine's home page....it won't
>load and eventually times out. i'm seeing the following in the
>error_log:
>
>[Sat Aug 31 09:39:53 2002] [error] (11)Resource busy, try again: fork:
>Unable to
> fork new process
>[Sat Aug 31 09:40:04 2002] [error] (11)Resource busy, try again: fork:
>Unable to
> fork new process
>
>over and over and.... the machine was rebooted early this morning. all
>other network services (like telnet) appear to be ok. there's nothing
>notable in the latest nmlg file. the machine is bascially idle (i'm the
>only person logged on other than the operator). also, the httpd server
>seems to not respond to the usual 'kill' command but it can be aborted.
>any clues? - d
>
>--
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> - Aurthur Clarke
>
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