Amund Elstad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> I am reposting a patch posted by Jeff Trawick which adds mutex protection to
> the retrieve operation. Before I applied this patch, I  experienced the
> following problems with 2.0.40 on win32:
> 
>       - Child process termination (status 3221225477 in error_log,
> segfault?) - often twice or more every weekday. 
>       - Infinite loops (I traced one to dbm_close:
> http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12705) several times a
> week. 
> 
> I applied the patch on September 17th and the server has been running
> perfectly stable since. There has been no significant change in server load,
> nor any other changes in software or hardware.
> 
> The extra mutex protection is in my experience required on win32 (probably
> needed for other threaded MPMs as well), and IMO should be commited to cvs. 

Thanks for the update (and for diagnosing it in the first place!).  I
kept the patch around but wasn't going to commit until I got some
feedback.  I'll commit it today.

-- 
Jeff Trawick | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Born in Roswell... married an alien...

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