"Peter van Boheemen" <[log in to unmask]> wrote in message news:99nkli01ofp@enews4.newsguy.com... > We have been using the HP3000 as a web server since 1995. We started with > the NCSA server, then moved to the OMI web server. Recently we have moved > to the Apache web server. Since we did that we experience some problems. > Most of the request to our web server will result in the execution of our > WebQuery cgi program, which will perform our database queries and updates. > A few times a day, probably when it is busy, the web server returns > an 'Internal server error'. In the log file we see the reason for > this:"Resource busy, try again: couldn't spawn child > process: /WWW/WWW/httpd_1.3/cgi-bin/WebQuery" > > It looks like Apache invokes a time out, when then HP does not spawn a cgi > process fast enough. We never experienced this problem with the OMI server. > Has anyone ever had this experience ? > Any suggestions ? > regards, > Peter van Boheemen > Wageningen University Library > The Netherlands > Try enabling the server status, and see if that helps you to pinpoint the problem. if you haven't done so already