On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 4:27 AM, Jeff Trawick <trawick@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Since changing FCGID_MAX_APPLICATION to 4096 didn't help, I guess > you've encountered some sort of defect that causes a false detection > of too many processes. Although it is not going to solve your > problem, we can improve this particular message as well to indicate > the current value, that it is changed in the src, and requires a > rebuild. _eventually_ some actual docs @ the site will be helpful, but for now, > We can leave off docs@ for now. done. > What is the OS lsb_release -a LSB Version: core-2.0-noarch:core-3.2-noarch:core-4.0-noarch:core-2.0-ia32:core-3.2-ia32:core-4.0-ia32:desktop-4.0-ia32:desktop-4.0-noarch:graphics-2.0-ia32:graphics-2.0-noarch:graphics-3.2-ia32:graphics-3.2-noarch:graphics-4.0-ia32:graphics-4.0-noarch Distributor ID: SUSE LINUX Description: openSUSE 11.2 (i586) Release: 11.2 Codename: n/a uname -rsvo Linux 2.6.31.12-12-xen #1 SMP 2010-02-19 18:56:57 +0100 GNU/Linux > and how many instances (processes) of your two apps > were running when this message was generated? one each. although the order doesn't make a difference, in the example following, the 1st invoked app is a single instance of a pressflow6 site front-page. The 2nd invoked app is simply the login page of a drupal6 site. > With LogLevel debug, egrep -i Log {pressflow6.conf,drupal6.conf} pressflow6.conf: LogLevel debug pressflow6.conf: ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/pressflow6.error_log pressflow6.conf: CustomLog /var/log/apache2/pressflow6.log cached drupal6.conf: LogLevel debug drupal6.conf: ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/drupal6.error_log drupal6.conf: CustomLog /var/log/apache2/drupal6.log cached grep -i log ./sysconfig.d/global.conf LogLevel debug CustomLog /var/log/apache2/access_log combined > what messages are written by mod_fcgid to the error log up until the first failure? watching, tail -f /var/log/apache/{pressflow6,drupal6}*log error_log access_log INVOKE THE 1st APP ==> pressflow6.log <== staging.loc 10.0.1.206, 127.0.0.1 - - [24/Feb/2010:08:38:47 -0800] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 302 - "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.0) Gecko/20100115 SUSE/3.6.0-2.1 Firefox/3.6" ==> error_log <== [Wed Feb 24 08:38:47 2010] [info] mod_fcgid: server staging.loc:/usr/bin/php-cgi5(2750) started ==> pressflow6.log <== staging.loc 10.0.1.206, 127.0.0.1 - - [24/Feb/2010:08:38:48 -0800] "GET /main/ HTTP/1.1" 403 7866 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.0) Gecko/20100115 SUSE/3.6.0-2.1 Firefox/3.6" ... DISPLAYS CORRECTLY. INVOKE THE 2nd APP ... RETURNS @ BROWSER: "An internal server error occurred. Please try again later." ==> error_log <== [Wed Feb 24 08:39:11 2010] [warn] mod_fcgid: too much processes, please increase FCGID_MAX_APPLICATION [Wed Feb 24 08:39:12 2010] [warn] mod_fcgid: too much processes, please increase FCGID_MAX_APPLICATION [Wed Feb 24 08:39:13 2010] [warn] mod_fcgid: too much processes, please increase FCGID_MAX_APPLICATION ... etc ... that's it ... thanks. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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