Hi Everybody, I'm having big problems with mod_perl throwing intermittent Segmentation faults our production machines on RHEL 4 & 5. To be able to produce a core dump on this segfaults I've installed mod_dumpcore from this tutorial: http://mituzas.lt/2009/09/26/getting-apache-core-dumps-in-linux/ gdb /usr/sbin/httpd core.1 produces following output: #0 0x00b29f4b in XS_Apache__RequestRec_content_type () from /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.5/i386-linux-thread-multi/auto/Apache/RequestRec/RequestRec.so and very rarely ( 1 in 15 ) #0 0x003830b9 in apr_palloc () from /usr/lib/libapr-0.so.0 The content-type is set by $r->content_type("text/html; charset=iso-8859-1") but this is not what is causing him to segfault... By try and error I've figured out that the segfault happens when I do a $r->print($mypagecontent); I've even tried to do a unless($r->connection->aborted) { $r->print($mypagecontent); } but this didn't help either. The segfault happens randomly, between 30 and 250 mod_perl requests. There is no specific request URL or script that causes him to segfault, it just happens after some time. More load on the server means more segfaults. >From my Apache Config: <IfModule prefork.c> StartServers 8 MinSpareServers 5 MaxSpareServers 20 ServerLimit 256 MaxClients 200 MaxRequestsPerChild 15 </IfModule>
There are some additional Perl Modules that I've build from CPAN: Compress-Zlib-2.004 Digest-MD5-2.39 Email-MIME-1.861 Email-MIME-ContentType-1.014 Email-MIME-Encodings-1.311 Email-Simple-2.004 Encode-Detect-1.01 ExtUtils-CBuilder-0.23 File-Slurp-9999.12 IO-Compress-Zlib-2.004 MIME-Base64-3.07 MIME-Types-1.24 Module-Build-0.2808 Pod-Escapes-1.04 Pod-Simple-3.07 String-Similarity-1.03 Template-Plugin-XML-Escape-0.02 Test-Pod-1.26 Test-Simple-0.80 Has anyone a hint where to start looking and what to do next to figure out why this segfault is happening? Thanks Denis
