Synopsis: child process dump core State-Changed-From-To: open-feedback State-Changed-By: dgaudet State-Changed-When: Tue Mar 25 12:57:10 PST 1997 State-Changed-Why: While this is most definately a problem with too few file descriptors apache should not core dump because of it. If possible could you provide us with a stack trace from gdb on the core dump?
To avoid the core dump you'll need to either increase the number of descriptors available (see the limit command) or run multiple apaches and use Listen to spread the vhosts amongst them.
