On Mon, 19 Jun 2000, Paul wrote: > I'm running out of ideas. > > PerlFreshRestart was completely unused, then explicitly set Off. > I have two handlers, which seem to work well. My logs report nothing > amiss aside from the stream of segmentation faults killing off my > server children, usually several in quick succession, then minutes or > hours apart. This makes me think it's usage-based (duh), but I can't > seem to pin it down. > > And there are no core files. Shouldn't a segmentation fault that kills > a process produce a core file? What gives? I even logged in as root > and did a "find / -name 'core'", in case it was dumping it in some > obscure spot off the normal web directories. Not a single hit. We > don't have gdb on this server, but I assumed it was GNUware and was > going to install it -- but doesn't it need a core file? > > I hate to even post this, but I'm completely baffled. > I have users trying to hit the site from bookmarks, and getting the > "document contained no data" popup; I can only assume it's my children > segfaulting, and on no particular page. core files might not be produced depending on the user your server runs as, i think ulimit can change that or something, but don't know off the top of my head. if you can't reproduce the problem at will, attach to a any apache child (make sure it's not the parent!) with gdb (see the SUPPORT doc for hints) and wait for a segv. then pass along `bt' and `curinfo' to us.