httpd restarted then reported 2457 instances of: mod_fcgid: can't apply process slot in 8 hours, then stopped reporting them. Before the restart it had been up 87 days without reporting this error. The configuration files did not change before the restart nor after. Another weird thing happened that may matter (or not). The system re-booted (don't know why) before this restart and began by thinking the time was 0020 Feb 20 then, after a few minutes, decided that the time was 1626 Feb 19 (I believe that this is the correct time). apachectl at this time reported that the current time was *before* the restart time, that apache had been up for 136 years. I hypothesize that the system took the time from the hardware clock, that the hardware clock hadn't been reset over the previous 87 and drifted 8 hours ahead - or was set to CUT and the system didn't know this, took it as local time. Could this have caused the mod_fcgid error?