The following reply was made to PR os-other/1654; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Marc Slemko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Michael Shalayeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: os-other/1654: fails to fork off a cgi Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 08:23:23 -0700 (MST) On 12 Jan 1998, Michael Shalayeff wrote: > >How-To-Repeat: > run apache for a busy site with a lot of cgi calls, hits and vhosts under > openbsd, experience 'unable to spaw child process' messages Erm... I'm not really sure why it should be necessary to retry forking. If it fails once, then it is probably due to limits such as the number of file descriptors or processes. The answer is to fix the limitation, not to keep retrying until you can work around it. Have you looked at doing this? Any OS that requires trying multiple times for no reason before it works would be very broken...
