mod_fcgid: too much php process(current:8, max:8), skip the spawn request

if your websites are not loading and you encounter the above error in the error_log

mod_fcgid: too much (file path/name) php process(current:8, max:8), skip the spawn request

you can enable Piped Logs in the Plesk server to allow more open files , in 2 steps:

1. login via ssh and run

mysql -uadmin -p`cat /etc/psa/.psa.shadow` psa -e “replace into misc (param,val) values (‘apache_pipelog’, ‘true’);”

2.Rebuild Apache configuration:

$PRODUCT_ROOT_D/admin/sbin/websrvmng -v -a
solution also described here: http://kb.parallels.com/en/2066