[SOLVED] How to fix 500 errors

[pgentoo]

Whats your server load like? Whats your free RAM?

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Sorry, accidently posted to early. There were a couple other questions that i asked that you didn't answer. Apache MPM? Can you upgrade to PHP 5.2.6? I know that 30 seconds is a long time for a standard website request, but if you have something really slowing things down, and you are breaking past this timeout, you may need to raise it for the time being. When you are getting HTTP500's, is it after more than 30 seconds, or quicker?

I'm wondering if this is a resource issue, or simply a misconfiguration... As BeNe said, the newer version should run much better. The version you are using creates a TON of file handles to log files, which uses up system resources a lot more than required. mod_fcgid has also been shown to be better than mod_fastcgi. It is what i'm using on my system as well... Maybe look at switching over to get better control over your fcgi processes.

Sorry I can't give a exact answer, there are just too many variables here that could be causing your issues...

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pgentoo

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If raising those 2 values lowered the number of 500's, try leaving the # children a bit higher than you had it before (not too much higher), and leave the max requests number at 1000. If your php processes have a memory leak or something, you want to make sure they get recycled frequently.