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From: Paul Richards <p.richards@elsevier.co.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Apache 1.1.1 Dumping Core
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Date: 25 Sep 1996 15:24:21 +0100
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fred@lightside.net (Fred Condo) writes:

> In article <dlt-2309960726280001@news.csun.edu>, dlt@csun.edu (David
> Thompson) wrote:
> 
> >I'm seeing a LOT of these messages in my error_log.  Should I be concerned?
> >
> >[Mon Sep 23 07:19:24 1996] httpd: caught SIGSEGV, dumping core
> >[Mon Sep 23 07:19:31 1996] httpd: caught SIGSEGV, dumping core
> >[Mon Sep 23 07:19:31 1996] httpd: caught SIGSEGV, dumping core
> 
> Yes! This problem occurs when you have "too many" Virtual Hosts. "Too
> many" seems to depend on random variables: one FreeBSD machine I know
> cannot run even a single Virtual Host without dropping SIGSEGV on every
> hit. Another machine I know can run 7 Virtual Hosts without problems, but
> adding an 8th causes some, but not all, of the Virtual Hosts to drop a
> SIGSEGV.
> 
> This is a critical problem, and I am disheartened that my previous posts
> about it have been ignored. I think the FreeBSD and Apache people need to
> talk with each other.

You need to tell the Apache developers not the FreeBSD developers. I
haven't seen this reported to the Apache developers list and I don't
always read this newsgroup (get too much mail to read newsgroups).

Submit a bug report to the apache list for the record.

Is there a way to reproduce this consistently. I've never seen this
happen and none of the other Apache developers have either as far as I
know and nearly all of us use FreeBSD as our development platform.

I assure you that a bug this serious would have a high priority to
fix.

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