Re: Help! How to increase _PROCESSES_ ?

Matthias Urlichs (smurf@noris.de)
5 Feb 1999 15:10:54 +0100

Arvind Sankar <arvinds@mit.edu> writes:
> >
> > My webserver is under super heavy load (about 250 simultaneous
> > connections at any given time). I am very frequently getting:
> >
That's not "super heavy" -- one of ours has that, and it's only 20 requests
per second. "Super heavy" starts at 50. ;-)

> > 'couldnt spawn child process erorrs' when cgi scripts are attempted to
> > be ran, and overall server speed is bogged down.
> >
"help ulimit" (this is a bash builtin function).

Specifcally, put this in your server's startup script:

ulimit -H -u 1000
ulimit -S -u 1000

> increase NR_TASKS in /usr/src/linux/include/linux/tasks.h.
>
That's the _next_ limit.

-- 
Matthias Urlichs  |  noris network GmbH   |   smurf@noris.de  |  ICQ: 20193661
The quote was selected randomly. Really.    |      http://www.noris.de/~smurf/

-- 
Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.
               --Robert Heinlein


-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/