Root: FYI, Greg Ames gave me the heads up and I've killed this one child off... it seems to be a relatively odd input that caused the loop, so I won't back icarus down to the ancient 2.0.18 nor to 2.0.36 for now... I'll just leave it on 2.0.37-dev and keep a closer eye on it.
For everyone else, here's the backtrace of the looping process: (gdb) bt #0 match_boyer_moore_horspool (this_pattern=0x8111cf0, s=0x8161dc4 "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98; )", slen=58) at apr_strmatch.c:133 #1 0x806a616 in match_headers (r=0x8161048) at mod_setenvif.c:567 #2 0x809e0ac in ap_run_post_read_request (r=0x8161048) at protocol.c:1591 #3 0x809c89e in ap_read_request (conn=0x815a118) at protocol.c:981 #4 0x806ad28 in ap_process_http_connection (c=0x815a118) at http_core.c:284 #5 0x8097050 in ap_run_process_connection (c=0x815a118) at connection.c:85 #6 0x80974dc in ap_process_connection (c=0x815a118, csd=0x815a048) at connection.c:207 #7 0x80870fa in child_main (child_num_arg=11) at prefork.c:671 #8 0x80872d5 in make_child (s=0x8156670, slot=11) at prefork.c:765 #9 0x80875b7 in perform_idle_server_maintenance (p=0x80d1010) at prefork.c:900 #10 0x8087a77 in ap_mpm_run (_pconf=0x80d1010, plog=0x8109010, s=0x8156670) at prefork.c:1093 #11 0x808f207 in main (argc=1, argv=0xbfbffb2c) at main.c:632 #12 0x805e821 in _start () (gdb) info locals s_tmp = 0x8161df7 ")" p_tmp = 0x8111ce8 "2" s_end = 0x8161dfe "" shift = (int *) 0x8111d00 s_next = 0x8161df7 ")" p_start = 0x8111ce0 "Mozilla/2" p_end = 0x8111ce8 "2" I'll look into this a bit more and report back in a while. --Cliff -------------------------------------------------------------- Cliff Woolley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Charlottesville, VA