apache is seg faulting. why ?

[Melvyn Sopacua]

On Friday 30 January 2004 13:40, julien Beauviala wrote:

> the following :
> > pid 72041 (httpd), uid 80: exited on signal 11
> > pid 72040 (httpd), uid 80: exited on signal 11
> > pid 72099 (httpd), uid 80: exited on signal 11
> > pid 72039 (httpd), uid 80: exited on signal 11
> > pid 74202 (httpd), uid 80: exited on signal 11

Make sure you're up-to-date - it may be a security hole.

Otherwise: use top(1) and check if at some point you see a httpd process 
spinning wildly for a long time, while memory grows.

A frequent problem, is that somebody coded an infinite loop, filling a 
variable and then the process runs outof memory and segfaults.

PHP code like this for example:
$i = 11;
$buffer = '';
while ( $i != 10 )
{
	$buffer .= 'hello';
	$i++;
}

-- 
Melvyn

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