Stas Bekman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Marcin Kasperski wrote:
> > Recently I happened to get the error log flooded with the message
> >         callback called exit
> > (repeated a couple of million times, probably by one process or a few
> >  processes).
> > This was some side-effect of the lack of memory
> > (...)


> Hope that the following somewhat helps:
> 
>http://perl.apache.org/search/swish.cgi?query=callback+called+exit&sbm=SecD&submit=search

Thank you for the pointer.

Am I right deducing, that I should attempt recompiling perl with
-DEMERGENCY_SBRK? 

The perl I use describes itself as below so probably this option is
not turned on:

$ perl -V
Summary of my perl5 (revision 5.0 version 6 subversion 1) configuration:
  Platform:
    osname=dec_osf, osvers=5.1, archname=alpha-dec_osf
    uname='osf1 banach.softax.local v5.1 1885 alpha '
    config_args='-des -Dprefix=/opt/igowwwroot/tools_test/perl -Uinstallusrbinperl 
-Duseshrplib=1 -Dusemymalloc -Ubincompat5005'
    hint=previous, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
    usethreads=undef use5005threads=undef useithreads=undef usemultiplicity=undef
    useperlio=undef d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=define usesocks=undef
    use64bitint=define use64bitall=define uselongdouble=undef
  Compiler:
    cc='cc', ccflags ='-std -fprm d -ieee -D_INTRINSICS -I/usr/local/include 
-DLANGUAGE_C',
    optimize='-O4',
    cppflags='-std -fprm d -ieee -D_INTRINSICS -I/usr/local/include -DLANGUAGE_C'
    ccversion='V6.4-009', gccversion='', gccosandvers=''
    intsize=4, longsize=8, ptrsize=8, doublesize=8, byteorder=12345678
    d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=16
    ivtype='long', ivsize=8, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t', lseeksize=8
    alignbytes=8, usemymalloc=y, prototype=define
  Linker and Libraries:
    ld='ld', ldflags =' -L/usr/local/lib'
    libpth=/usr/local/lib /usr/shlib /usr/ccs/lib /usr/lib/cmplrs/cc /usr/lib 
/var/shlib
    libs=-ldbm -ldb -lm -liconv -lutil
    perllibs=-lm -liconv -lutil
    libc=/usr/shlib/libc.so, so=so, useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.a
  Dynamic Linking:
    dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags=' '
    cccdlflags=' ', lddlflags='-shared -expect_unresolved "*" -O4 -msym -std -s 
-L/usr/local/lib'


Characteristics of this binary (from libperl): 
  Compile-time options: USE_64_BIT_INT USE_64_BIT_ALL USE_LARGE_FILES
  Built under dec_osf
  Compiled at Nov 21 2002 15:05:28
  @INC:
    /opt/igowwwroot/tools/perl/lib/5.6.1/alpha-dec_osf
    /opt/igowwwroot/tools/perl/lib/5.6.1
    /opt/igowwwroot/tools/perl/lib/site_perl/5.6.1/alpha-dec_osf
    /opt/igowwwroot/tools/perl/lib/site_perl/5.6.1
    /opt/igowwwroot/tools/perl/lib/site_perl
    .

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