[Solved] Default PHP page: fork() failed, please increase process limit

[tenants]

I've read quite a lot of posts related to this, but none seem to solve my issues

When I visit my default PHP page (http://localhost:8090/phpinfo.php), I get the following:
503 Service Unavailable
The server is temporarily busy, try again later! Powered By LiteSpeed Web Server

(The "hello world" cgi page is fine)

This is a new install of litespeed (1st time I have used it)
The version is: v4.2.2
I'm using it on a Ubuntu Virtial server (VM ware). I've recently updated + upgraded (sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade) to make sure all the packages are the latest

I've given the VMware 4 processors and 8 gigs

I've managed to install the PHP (eventually) without errors via the litespeed confMgr
I did have to do a few things here to begin with, but they were resolved using the info here:
http://www.litespeedtech.com/support...i:troubleshoot

The error messages suggest increasing the soft/hard process limit, so I've updated these via the confMgr (Configuration >> Server >> Security)
1) soft (from about 300) now to 1300
2) hard (from about 600) now to 1600

I've also tried setting both of these to 0 (the machine default), but I still get the error messages below when visiting the default php page:


There error in the stderr.log is:
2013-02-25 05:52:02.837 [STDERR] fork() failed, please increase process limit: Resource temporarily unavailable

The error in error.log is:

2013-02-25 05:52:05.041 [NOTICE] [127.0.0.1:50153-0#Example] Max retries has been reached, 503!
2013-02-25 05:52:05.041 [NOTICE] [127.0.0.1:50153-0#Example] oops! 503 Service Unavailable
2013-02-25 05:52:05.041 [NOTICE] [127.0.0.1:50153-0#Example] Content len: 0, Request line: 'GET /phpinfo.php HTTP/1.1'
2013-02-25 05:52:10.183 [INFO] [AdminPHP] add child process pid: 3323, procinfo: 0x87f09f8
2013-02-25 05:57:08.067 [INFO] [127.0.0.1:50167-0#Example] connection to [/tmp/lshttpd/lsphp5.sock] on request #0, confirmed, 0, associated process: 3321, running: 1, error: Connection reset by peer!
2013-02-25 05:57:08.067 [INFO] [127.0.0.1:50167-0#Example] connection to [/tmp/lshttpd/lsphp5.sock] on request #0, confirmed, 0, associated process: 3321, running: 1, error: Connection reset by peer!
2013-02-25 05:57:08.068 [INFO] [127.0.0.1:50167-0#Example] connection to [/tmp/lshttpd/lsphp5.sock] on request #0, confirmed, 0, associated process: 3321, running: 1, error: Connection reset by peer!
2013-02-25 05:57:08.068 [NOTICE] [127.0.0.1:50167-0#Example] Max retries has been reached, 503!
2013-02-25 05:57:08.068 [NOTICE] [127.0.0.1:50167-0#Example] oops! 503 Service Unavailable
2013-02-25 05:57:08.068 [NOTICE] [127.0.0.1:50167-0#Example] Content len: 0, Request line: 'GET /phpinfo.php HTTP/1.1'
2013-02-25 05:57:08.068 [INFO] [127.0.0.1:50167-0#Example] Cookie len: 107,

[NiteWave]

how about on command line:
#cd /usr/local/lsws/fcgi-bin
#./lsphp5 -i |head

[tenants]

That returns the following:


phpinfo()
PHP Version => 5.4.11

System => Linux ubuntu 3.5.0-17-generic #28-Ubuntu SMP Tue Oct 9 19:32:08 UTC 2012 i686
Build Date => Feb 25 2013 08:52:37
Configure Command => './configure' '--prefix=/home/mike/lsws/lsphp5' '--with-mysqli' '--with-zlib' '--with-gd' '--enable-shmop' '--enable-track-vars' '--enable-sockets' '--enable-sysvsem' '--enable-sysvshm' '--enable-magic-quotes' '--enable-mbstring' '--with-iconv' '--with-litespeed'
Server API => LiteSpeed V6.1
Virtual Directory Support => disabled
Configuration File (php.ini) Path => /home/mike/lsws/lsphp5/lib
Loaded Configuration File => (none)


So.. PHP seems to be installed correctly , but LiteSpeed isnt handeling the PHP mime type correctly (?)
=> It's probably something really stupid (I sped through this thinking I could set up a VPC, Litespeed, PHP .. and then msql/forum withing a few hours, just to test a plugin I was developing)

I like the LiteSpeed GUI by the way, and the ease of adding additional PHP packages

[tenants]

There is something I've noticed about the php5 folders, they seem to have root ownership (why I don't know). I'm going to try changing the permisions of the folders

Edit: nope

sudo chown -R mike:mike lsphp5/

and I still have the same issue

[NiteWave]

any message in /usr/local/lsws/logs/stderr.log ?

have you changed any of the default setting in
Server->External App->lsphp5 ?

and you can try build php 5.3.21 with minimum size:
Configure Parameters:--disable-all

to see if phpinfo() show up.

[tenants]

Originally Posted by NiteWave

any message in /usr/local/lsws/logs/stderr.log ?

The stderr.log message is in the first post (its the same every time I visit the default PHP page)

2013-02-25 09:21:34.382 [STDERR] fork() failed, please increase process limit: Resource temporarily unavailable

Originally Posted by NiteWave

have you changed any of the default setting in
Server->External App->lsphp5 ?

I've left the default settings, I just had a look at these and they are set to:
LSAPI App lsphp4 uds://tmp/lshttpd/lsphp4.sock
LSAPI App lsphp5 uds://tmp/lshttpd/lsphp5.sock

I'll try php 5.3.21 with minimum size now

[tenants]

Originally Posted by NiteWave

and you can try build php 5.3.21 with minimum size:
Configure Parameters:--disable-all

to see if phpinfo() show up.

I still get the error message

PHP 5.3.21 (using only --disable-all) compiled without error:

**MAIN_STATUS** retrieved from /home/mike/lsws/phpbuild/buildphp_1361813196.8.progress
Start building PHP 5.3.21 with LSAPI
Configuring PHP build (2-3 minutes)
Compiling PHP (5-10 minutes)
Installing PHP
copy compiled php binary to litespeed directory
**COMPLETE**

But navigating to the default (or any) PHP file still results in the 503 error

[NiteWave]

1)try if php 4 work:
Server->Script Handler->Suffixes: php->Edit->Handler Name:lsphp5->lsphp4,
then restart lsws

2)
#cd /usr/local/lsws/fcgi-bin
#ldd lsphp5
to see if any valuable message

[webizen]

Originally Posted by tenants

...
The error messages suggest increasing the soft/hard process limit, so I've updated these via the confMgr (Configuration >> Server >> Security)
1) soft (from about 300) now to 1300
2) hard (from about 600) now to 1600

I've also tried setting both of these to 0 (the machine default), but I still get the error messages below when visiting the default php page:

...

You should change soft/hard process limit in LSPHP5 external app (Admin Console => Configuration => Server => External App => LSPHP5) instead.

http://www.litespeedtech.com/docs/we...#procSoftLimit

[tenants]

Originally Posted by webizen

You should change soft/hard process limit in LSPHP5 external app (Admin Console => Configuration => Server => External App => LSPHP5) instead.

http://www.litespeedtech.com/docs/we...#procSoftLimit

Thats the one (updated the soft / hard limits in the wrong place )

Thank you