Apache child process crashes frequently

[Harry Strongburg]

On Wed, Apr 06, 2011 at 03:50:57PM +0200, Leo TheHobbit Cacciari wrote:
> Il 04/06/2011 04:31 AM, Harry Strongburg ha scritto:
> > On Wed, Apr 06, 2011 at 07:05:34AM +0530, Basil Kurian wrote:
> >> When our PHP application is deployed on apache, its child process
> >> often get crashed, creating coredump in errror.log. We are
> >> experiencing this problem in both Ubuntu and debian installations.
> >>
> >> Please see this error.log http://pastebin.ubuntu.com/589646/ .
> > Have you tried installing a different httpd (such as lighttpd or nginx), 
> > to see if it's an Apache issue? If it runs fine on a different httpd, 
> > then you can "guarantee" that it's an Apache issue and not something 
> > else (PHP or otherwise). Another interesting thing you can try would be 
> > compiling Apache by yourself and testing with that, instead of the 
> > Ubuntu packages.
> >
> Hi,
> I think  is clear from the posted log that the problem is a php one, in
> the memcache module probably.

Apache's libphp is different than running a PHP-CGI socket accessed 
directly via another httpd (if I recall correctly, anyways). I might be 
totally wrong, but it would still be useful debugging information...