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Apache cannot fork: cannot allocate memory

I am running apache on Fedora with mod_perl. The server forks a process to send an email frequently - and the fork exits. Suddenly, I got: Cannot fork: Cannot allocate memory. There was plenty of ...
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Unkillable apache2 processes

After upgrading from debian lenny to squeeze (apache2 2.2.16-6+squeeze4 and php 5.3.10-1~dotdeb.1), my apache processes started to exit with segmentation fault. It happens every 5-30 minutes (for 1 ...
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Why is apache2 showing up a defunct in the process list?

When I run top I see one line that doesn't look too good: 2475 www-data 20 0 0 0 0 Z 1 0.0 0:00.19 apache2 <defunct> Why is this process <defunct> and what should I ...
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Check for process already running in webfaction?

I use Django framework on webfaction and have 5 different cron jobs. One of them lasts much longer than others and sometimes gets stuck (30-120 seconds or more). I have already set that cron job to ...