[H-GEN] Apache segfaulting... how to debug

[Sarah Walters]

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On 10 Jul 2003 Michael Anthon <michael at anthon.net> wrote:
> If I understand the gist of what Andrae is saying then you are 
> suggesting that something is allocating some memory but not cleaning up 
> after itself?

Apache 1.3, especially on older versions of Solaris, is known to have
occasional memory leaks in its children (or rather, the libraries they
use). It has a way of combating that - the MaxRequestsPerChild
directive. I believe it is set to 0 by default, which means a child
never exits unless it is in excessive of the MaxSpareServers. Try
setting it to something smaller, say 5000 or so, and see how it goes.

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Mrs Sarah Walters
Systems Group
Information Technology Services
University of Wollongong
Phone: +61 2 4221 3775


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