> What I find odd is that all of the sudden people seem to be coming out of
> the woodwork about this stuff. Whe I searched through mailing list
> archives, some of them going back years, I found something odd... Many
> people were talking about this same problem between December of last year
> and January of this year. No one found a satisfactory solution (at least, I
> didn't see one). Some blamed it on pre-loading CGI.pm in startup.perl,
> while others blamed it on having a PerlFreshRestart On in the Apache
> confguration scripts. This seems to be a pretty big deal, if so many people
> are complaining under so many configurations, and apparently it has gone on
> for over a year.
core dumps can happen for many different reasons. why there are so many
these past couple of days, I don't know, but doubt they are all triggered
by the same thing. if you could follow suit and post a stacktrace from
gdb, that would help.