UBB.threads PHP Forum Software Community Forums Resources and Customizing Admin Zone Couldn't create child process issue.

My error log is full of these messages - Cannot allocate memory: couldn't create child process: /opt/suphp/sbin/suphp for /home/...

Has anyone else had this? Any idea why?

Looks to be some php script that doesn't have memory to finish. Anyone reporting any errors on the site? If so, if you can find out exactly what they were doing at the time that would help track it down.

It seems to be happening when being spidered by Google. The techs for the host figure that they will downgrade Apache (was recently upgraded) and also that they will get rid of SuPHP (that should not be a problem, right?)

so now that apache has been rebuilt, I see the following error in my error log.

PHP Fatal error: PHP Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 8388608 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 730501 bytes) in /home/agentson/public_html/forums/libs/ubbthreads.inc.php on line 826

Any ideas?

It looks like it's running into the memory issue when it tries to do the final replacement of the graemlins for that particular style. I'd check with them and see if it's possible for them to bump up the max memory that PHP is allowed to use.

I will do that, thank you.

Just to follow up for anyone in the future with the same issues who search these forums for an answer - I had the memory increased and my error issues appear to be solved.

excellent, glad it's been resolved.

Much thanks for answering this question. I recently installed Apache 2.2 on my home machine to work as a test server and was baffled as to why I couldn't get CGI up and running. While I had considered the path as being a problem, I was confused by the various perl interpreter locations (I'm running Cygwin, thought it might want to reference that, or perhaps I needed to download an Apache specific Perl interpreter.)

I'm running W7, using Active Perl for my interpreter. If you're in the same boat, just search for "Perl.exe" and use that as the header. Mine ended up being:

#!"C:\Perl64\bin\perl.exe"

Thanks again!