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From: mark@sun (CRDB Database account)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix
Subject: Re: Apache + FreeBSD 2.1.0-R = SIGSEGV
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Date: 25 Sep 1996 15:10:19 GMT
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Along similar lines:

We were using NCSA Mosaic.  It crashed with Segmentation
Violation and a Panic Dump.  We saw Apache and switched
over to it.  It ran fine for about two weeks.  Now we are
back to the Segmentation Violations and Panic Dumps.

Our system:

Silicon Graphics Indigo2 Extreme.
64megs of memory
Tons of swap space

Tested out the programs on a Mac running MacHTTP.  They run
fine there.  All programs are written in Perl.

The problem occurs (usually) after I do a "reload" from
Mosaic, Netscape, or whatever browser I happen to be using
at the time.  I can be on the SGI itself, on another SGI,
Mac, IBM, anything.  Sometimes the SGI dies after one
reload, two reloads, or ten reloads.  Once it happened from
just bringing up an HTML web page (no script involved at
all).

I am _REALLY_ at a loss to understand why it is doing
this.  Any ideas would be helpful.

My idea to the sysop is that because httpd has to run as
root, it is stomping on other processes which is causing
our problems.  But I can't prove it because I can't get a
look at the dump files (the sysop is a bit paranoid I'd
find out everyone's passwords).  :-P  Like I really care
about anyone else's passwords.  I'm just trying to get
the server working so people can use the software.  :-/

Anyway, any help you can give would be greatly appreciated.  :-)

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