Re: CGI errors
On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, Don Hatch wrote:
> I have a client whose cgi scripts have recently stopped working. The error log gives this error:
>
> [error][client ip address](24)Too many open files: counldn't spawn child process: /path/to/cgi-bin/script.cgi
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions? Where would I start looking? I'm running Debian 2.1 and I checked a couple of files like /etc/limits but everything is still commented out. Any help is appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Don Hatch
> donh@webpipe.net
>
This sounds like you have run into kernel limits..
if you run 2.2.x kernels check out the files beneath
/proc/sys/fs
especially file-max and inode-max
Roger Abrahamsson
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