would help if you could post the kernel version, any other log messages that
you might think would be helpful. the version of apache etc. in my limited
knowledge perl scripts on their own cannot cause kernel panic, unless the
kernel had a bug which is accidentally being exposed by perl.
/kk
p.s also post this problem to the linux kernel mailing list
On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, Bruno Veldeman wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> Since I have been writing Perl scripts for CGI and non-CGI I have been experiencing
>strange things on my server.
>
> It always says: Trying to kill the idle proccess.
> and then : Kernel Panic
>
> with a lot of numbers which are not logged.
>
> Can Perl cause this kind of side effects?
>
>
> Bruno.
>
