I Need Help Setting My Magnus.conf File
Hans
I am running iPlanet Enterprise Server 4.1 with SP3 on a Redhat Linux
6.1 server with a PIII 500 MHZ processor and 128 MB of SDRAM. I have
two 9 GB hard drives in a RAID 5 configuration. Since iPlanet needs a
256 MB swap and I only had a 64 MB swap partition, I created a 192 MB
swap file.
I have several perl scripts (e.g. message boards) running on my server.
My server ran well for approx. 21 days but after that, when I try to
access my message board (written in perl), I got a "HTTP 500 Internal
Server Error" randomly. Sometimes I would get the error and sometimes
the message board would work. When I checked the iPlanet server logs, I
saw this error message each time the message board failed:
[14/Nov/2000:17:46:29] catastrophe ( 1943): for host 216.123.4.5
trying to POST /bin/board.pl, cgieng_start_output reports: could not
fork new process (Request pipe I/O failed [Success])
When I did a netstat, I noticed I had 4 CGIStub processes running. After
I rebooted the server, I had only 2 CGIStub processes running and the
server seemed to worked fine from then on.
Do I have some kind of resource problem on my server? Do I have enough
memory or a big enough swap file? Maybe the swap file I added is not
being utilized properly. Do I need to reconfigure the CGIStub
directives?
Please tell me what would be the best values to set the following
CGIStub directives in the magnus.conf file to for my current server
configuration:
MinCGIStubs
MaxCGIStubs
CGIStubIdleTimeout
Thanks.
Hans