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From: Bill Moran <wmoran@collaborativefusion.com>
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In response to Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org>:

> Bill Moran wrote:
> > In response to Brett Bump <bbump@rsts.org>:
> >> I'm seeing signal 6's on apache and imapd (never happened before)
> >> network errors, serious response time errors and generally poor
> >> performance during peak activity (same box, same people).
> > 
> > IIRC, signal 6 is an indicator that you've compiled binaries that are
> > almost, but not quite compatible with your CPU.
> 
> You probably mean signals 4 (SIGILL) or 10 (SIGBUS), rather than 6
> (SIGABRT) :)
> 
> I was getting a lot of SIGABRTs once, but that turned out to be due to
> PHP module order bogosity and linking mismatched threaded libraries into
> apache.

You're quite likely correct.

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