As a non-expert I would imagine you have run out of file-descriptors.. You can monitor your number of open connections (each of which apparently uses a fd) using netstat --tcp and check the number of file descriptors set using ulimit -n (and set them using ulimit -n 32768). Hope this helps Michael -----Original Message----- From: Tom Fischer [mailto:tom.fischer@xxxxxxx] Sent: 21 April 2005 12:01 To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [users@httpd] Too many open Files Hi List, in the last Days we discovered crashes from our Apache-Webserver. It dies with simple Segmentation Fault. After investigating the issue i discovered in some ErrorLogs from our Customers the error-message (24) Too many open Files. I've read the FAQ about this issue and removed the ErrorLog from the Vhosts. This morning the Webserver was down again (Glad that i've added an event Handler in our monitoring) with the same Message. We are running Apache 2.0.53 with suPHP 0.5.2 and suExec enabled on an Gentoo Linux with kernel 2.6.11.7. The Access Logs were piped into an splitlogfile and no ErrorLogs for the Vhosts are written. At the moment we have 700 Vhosts on the machine. What else can cause this behaviour? Regards Tom --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx