[TriLUG] Apache: Segmentation fault errors

[Paul G. Szabady]

Greetings,

I was wondering if anyone had any good pointers for trouble-shooting
Apache Segmentation fault errors on linux.

IE:
[Sun Mar 04 21:55:42 2007] [notice] child pid 29114 exit signal
Segmentation fault (11)

I have a RHEL 3 server with 2.4.21-47.ELsmp kernel, Apache/2.0.46, and PHP
4.3.2 w/Sablotron 1.0.1 support that supports numerous virtual hosts. 
Until recently all seemed to work as it should w/3977 "VirtualHost"
stanzas in the http.conf file.  After adding ~150 new virtual hosts, I
seem to hit what appears to be some form of linux/apache/php limit.   Now,
mostly everything seems to work as it should EXCEPT the admin panel on
phpBB.  Whenever I go to the admin panel, I get a Segmentation fault
error.  If I remove the most recently added (~150) virtual hosts, things
work fine again.

Short of building an additional server, does anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks in advance!

--
Paul
@ Thy Service