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Subject: Re: apache is seg faulting. why ?
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Melvyn Sopacua wrote:

>On Friday 30 January 2004 13:40, julien Beauviala wrote:
>
>  
>
>>the following :
>>    
>>
>>>pid 72041 (httpd), uid 80: exited on signal 11
>>>pid 72040 (httpd), uid 80: exited on signal 11
>>>pid 72099 (httpd), uid 80: exited on signal 11
>>>pid 72039 (httpd), uid 80: exited on signal 11
>>>pid 74202 (httpd), uid 80: exited on signal 11
>>>      
>>>
>
>Make sure you're up-to-date - it may be a security hole.
>
>Otherwise: use top(1) and check if at some point you see a httpd process 
>spinning wildly for a long time, while memory grows.
>
>A frequent problem, is that somebody coded an infinite loop, filling a 
>variable and then the process runs outof memory and segfaults.
>
>PHP code like this for example:
>$i = 11;
>$buffer = '';
>while ( $i != 10 )
>{
>	$buffer .= 'hello';
>	$i++;
>}
>
>  
>
PHP does have memory-limits.