On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 9:08 AM, Mihai Chelaru <mihai.chel...@ngnetworks.ro> wrote: > > Hello, > > I am seeing "[notice] child pid 16566 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)" > in my apache error_log. There is something like 66790 in maybe 1 or 2 days. > I think this problem is being caused by php. Also, I am getting many core > dumps from apache. I wonder if this could be causing the issue that I am > having with sokva. Since the child process does not exit cleanly, could it > be leaving things in the kernel, eventually filling the kernel's sokva area? > I now have my kern.somaxkva = 100663296. This is not helping. If I don't > reboot the system everyday, then all apache processes go into a stat of > sokva. I am desperate to find a solution! > > Thanks, > Al > > > For Google archiving - happened to me also after a pkgin full-upgrade to > pkgsrc-2012Q4 binaries on a 6.0 system. pkgin updated apache and apr-util > but didn't updated apr (version was unchanged). Executing "pkgin -F install > apr" fixed the problem for me. > > -- > Mihai
Can you rebuild with debugging symbols? It's easier to confirm who is crashing apache that way. You might also be able to examine the core files you already have.