Subject: Re: Kernel tweaks
To: None <martyn@nethead.ltd.uk>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: tech-kern
Date: 09/11/1998 17:41:27
On Sep 11, martyn@nethead.ltd.uk wrote
> Hi all
> 
> Running 1.3.2 on a pentium II with 96 meg ram,
> precompiled apache 1.3.1 and perl-5.00404 from the
> packages, running cgi scripts calling web pages, 
> I am getting the following error
> log messages, and customers are not getting
> served:
> 
> [Mon Sep  7 08:18:59 1998] [error] (35)Resource temporarily unavailable:
> couldn't spa
> wn child process: /usr/home/adscgi/cgi-bin/ads1.cgi
> 
> Compiling a kernel upping the users defined to 64
> 
> include "arch/i386/conf/std.i386"
> 
> maxusers        64              # estimated number of user
> 
> compiles ok, and thus as I understand, increases
> the following parameters:-
> 
>         Maximum # of processes 
>         Maximum # of processes per user 
>         System wide open files limit 
>         Per-process open files limit 
>         Maximum # of mbuf clusters 
>         Proc/pgrp hash table size 
> 
> However, it now falls over to the debug prompt
> with the following warning:-
> 
> panic vm_map_entry_create  out of map entries
> stopped at _Debugger +0x4 :leave

You can try to bump NKMEMCLUSTERS to 2048 in your kernel config file,
but I'm nut sure the problem comes from here ...

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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