TRY ServerLimit 20 StartServers 16 MaxClients 250 MaxRequestsPerChild 10000 Balanand Pinni SBC Services Inc OBC ,Stl MO -----Original Message----- From: Edward David [mailto:edavid@xxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2005 11:48 AM To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [users@httpd] Apache 2 child spawn issue I am getting this message when I run a perl program. *Resource temporarily unavailable: couldn't create child process:* I am including my config file parameters:- ## ## Server-Pool Size Regulation (MPM specific) ## <IfModule prefork.c> StartServers 5 MinSpareServers 5 MaxSpareServers 10 MaxClients 256 MaxRequestsPerChild 10000 </IfModule> # worker MPM <IfModule worker.c> ServerLimit 16 StartServers 3 MaxClients 256 MinSpareThreads 75 MaxSpareThreads 250 ThreadsPerChild 25 MaxRequestsPerChild 10000 </IfModule> # perchild MPM <IfModule perchild.c> NumServers 5 StartThreads 5 MinSpareThreads 5 MaxSpareThreads 10 MaxThreadsPerChild 64 MaxRequestsPerChild 0 </IfModule> If anyone can see what I am doing wrong please let me know. My workaround for now is to restart the Apache server. --------------------------------------------------------------- Edward David Sr. Systems Analyst University of Calgary Information Resources Information Technology Service --------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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