[TriLUG] Apache: Segmentation fault errors

[Kevin Kreamer]

Paul G. Szabady wrote:
> 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?

What does /proc/sys/fs/file-max say?

Kevin