is there any way to atleast alleviate this and not produce the core dumps.
recompiling or changing the ssl modules of this
system is quite a  big task because it is a widely used roduction isntance?

On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 10:05 AM, Joshua Slive <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 9:52 AM, Sailesh Krishnamurthy
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hi, We have a production apache 1.3 instance on solaris, where of late
> one
> > of the httpd processes has been crashing and
> > producing core dumps. This looks to be a known issue with large SSL file
> > downloads happening over apache 1.3.
> >  However what I" want to know is how can I debug this production issue
> > further. How can I find the application/cgi
> > causing the crash or how can it be remediated (without having to upgrade
> > apache). The stack traces are as below.
> >  Your inputs are appreciated. thanks
>
> If you want to know what request is responsible, you could recompile
> with debugging symbols, and then move up the stack-trace of a core
> dump until you find a function that has the request_rec structure
> (usually "r") and dump the info out of there (r->uri for example).
>
> If you want to fix it, you'll probably need to contact whoever created
> your SSL module. Apache from apache.org doesn't have ssl until 2.0, so
> it must be some third-party. Judging from the function names, the
> likely source seems to be
> http://www.modssl.org/
>
> Joshua.
>
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