problem 503 Service Unavailable

[nitro212]

Hi. i am new here so if this is not the correct forum for help i apologize.

i been getting this error on the website

503 Service Unavailable
The server is temporarily busy, try again later!

looking at the logs in stderr.log

2011-01-13 21:06:31.415 [STDERR] fork() failed, please increase process limit: Resource temporarily unavailable
2011-01-13 21:06:31.415 [STDERR] fork() failed, please increase process limit: Resource temporarily unavailable
2011-01-13 21:06:32.670 [STDERR] fork() failed, please increase process limit: Resource temporarily unavailable
2011-01-13 21:06:32.670 [STDERR] fork() failed, please increase process limit: Resource temporarily unavailable
2011-01-13 21:06:32.671 [STDERR] fork() failed, please increase process limit: Resource temporarily unavailable

how can i fix this problem? i have a dedicated, if that helps.

 

[mistwang]

http://www.litespeedtech.com/docs/webserver/config/extapps/#procSoftLimit
increase both soft and hard limit.

 

[nitro212]

thank you. quick question. i am new to litespeed by how much should i increase it?

 

[webizen]

the limit by default is 200. you can increase by 50 at a time.