Greg Troxel --> pkgsrc-users (2009-02-19 08:25:28 -0500):
Because I wanted to upgrade Apache to 2.2 anyway I didn't debug this
further and built and installed www/apache22 and the needed modules;
Apache 2.2 starts up and seems to run fine, but I still see those
occasional segmentation faults:
Is anybody seeing this as well? Any hints?
Stop using PHP :-)
Sure I would if it was up to me... ;-)
More seriously, I have a system with mod_wsgi for python and
svn/authz/trac, and I see core dumps occasionally too. I don't have any
real suggestions - I think there's just a lot of buggy code out there,
and in particular I suspect the following
memory leaks
NULL from malloc is widely mishandled
which lead to crashing after a while.
Not that I'd like to try fixing PHP or whatever causes the segfaults I'm
seeing, but I'd like to know for sure which module is causing them. But
I don't manage to get core dumps even if I (termporarily...) change fs
permissions to allow the httpd user to write to / (which is his working
directory, according to fstat(1)). Any hint what could be the problem
here?