On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 08:39:57AM +0000, R J Ladyman wrote: > Having set max_children to 1, the problems have ceased or, more correctly, > have not reoccured. Have you any pointers as to where I should look in either > the SCGI or Quixote source-code for checking what is going on (so that I > might discover which piece of my code is causing the problem)? If you are using Apache 2, I suggest trying to use the cgi2scgi program that comes with scgi-1.2 rather than using mod_scgi. You could also build a little script that generates SCGI requests by connecting directly to the SCGI server (bypassing Apache completely). Neil