Apache configs

too many child processes

[sned]

Hi everyone, I'm running Apache 2.0.46, everything works fine until the server gets slammed by hits, even then everything works fine .. cpu shows 95% idle, etc.

However, after I get the "Server seems busy, starting X children" a few times ( > 100 children), I can't send mail or exec functions through php any more.

Here are the errors I get:

Unable to fork [some program etc]
Could not execute mail delivery program '/usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i'

I've googled for this quite a bit, but can't seem to find any definitive answers, so I'm wondering if I should edit my apache configuration a little bit.

Thanks,
-sned

[sned]

After talking with a few folks, they advised me to raise the process limit on the server.

Perhaps, this was meant for the linux section.

-sned