I've been seeing this since OpenBSD 3.4 with Uebimiau php webmail and sometimes httpd stops working, restarting is needed.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Joachim Schipper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <misc@openbsd.org> Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2007 10:28 AM Subject: Re: apache + php On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 12:56:27PM +0200, Marc Balmer wrote: > Otto Moerbeek wrote: > >On Wed, 11 Jul 2007, Adam PAPAI wrote: > >>The system hangs after 1 day. It's a very strongly loaded system. Any idea > >>why? It seems that the system does not really handle the http requests > >>well. > >> > >>/var/www/log/access_log snippet: > >> > >>httpd in malloc(): error: recursive call > >>httpd in malloc(): error: recursive call > >>[Mon Jul 9 18:33:39 2007] [notice] child pid 24755 exit signal Abort (6) > >>[Mon Jul 9 18:33:39 2007] [notice] child pid 10372 exit signal Abort (6) > >>[Mon Jul 9 18:33:39 2007] [notice] child pid 11192 exit signal > >>Segmentation > >>fault (11) > >>[Mon Jul 9 18:33:39 2007] [notice] child pid 15994 exit signal > >>Segmentation > >>fault (11) > > > >The aborts and seg faults are likely caused by php. It's mostly sloppy > >programming by the php developers. > > A know problem exists with PHP and anonymous mmaps in the kernel. I do > not know if this is what hits you here, but the symptons look much like it. > > a busy system that runs, e.g. the horde/imp webmailer will hang within a > short time (1.5 days over here). > > until there is a better solution, the workaround is quite easy: restart > httpd in a cronjob. I'm sorry to intrude here, but is this problem new? I was not aware of it. (And as a follow-up, can we expect it to be fixed any time soon?) Joachim -- PotD: x11/iwidgets - Iwidgets Mega Widget Set
