This is the list of stuff I usually start with when I get a problem that doesn't seem to be tied to a particular code path.
* code path - perhaps a particular code path is only being exercised rarely, and it has a bug * forking - when child dies, all open descriptors in it's name space also get closed * eval - always a good thing to look at when weird things happen * persistancy - globals, closures, persistant objects, serialized/restored objects, shared memory, shared objects (between processes) -wjt
