Mel wrote:
On Thursday 21 February 2008 18:57:38 Forrest Aldrich wrote:

Here's a recent output of "top" :

PID USERNAME  THR PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE  C   TIME   WCPU COMMAND
94711 www         1 117    0 41036K 13852K RUN    0   1:43 98.69% httpd


Is this memory rising? If the below suggestion doesn't narrow down the problem, could you look into ktrace(1) and see what it's doing all this time? You could also try to narrow down the problem, by looking at what request was served last by that child. Enable mod_info for that.

The only thing I see are multiple lines of these errors in error_log:

[Thu Feb 21 00:00:12 2008] [error] child process 63633 still did not
exit, sending a SIGKILL
[Thu Feb 21 00:00:12 2008] [error] child process 63634 still did not
exit, sending a SIGKILL
[Thu Feb 21 00:00:12 2008] [error] child process 63635 still did not
exit, sending a SIGKILL
[Thu Feb 21 00:00:12 2008] [error] child process 63636 still did not
exit, sending a SIGKILL
[Thu Feb 21 00:00:12 2008] [error] child process 63637 still did not
exit, sending a SIGKILL
[Thu Feb 21 00:00:12 2008] [error] child process 63983 still did not
exit, sending a SIGKILL
[Thu Feb 21 00:00:12 2008] [error] child process 64048 still did not
exit, sending a SIGKILL


Which is correct, as the process is not exiting.  For some reason it's
hanging.  The old binary did not do this.

I could try another system update today (make/build/install world and
recompile the apache executable and dependencies) to see if this solves
the problem...

I doubt it would help. I've seen this lots of times when the php module exit code is hanging. At the same time, the php CLI binary should be crashing on exit. Re-order your modules, there's a thread about it in the archives. If it wasn't for that useless piece of crap ht-dig, I'd have a link for you. :p

Anyway, to test if it's this problem, run php -v and see if you get coredump. If you don't have CLI available, you could try disabling php in apache and see if the problem persists.

THANK YOU. I think this is definitely a good lead to where the problem exists. I am including the output of "php -v" here.


[root]# php -v
PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library '/usr/local/lib/php/20060613/fileinfo.so' - Cannot open "/usr/local/lib/php/20060613/fileinfo.so" in Unknown on line 0 PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library '/usr/local/lib/php/20060613/imagick.so' - Cannot open "/usr/local/lib/php/20060613/imagick.so" in Unknown on line 0 PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library '/usr/local/lib/php/20060613/fileinfo.so' - Cannot open "/usr/local/lib/php/20060613/fileinfo.so" in Unknown on line 0 PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library '/usr/local/lib/php/20060613/imagick.so' - Cannot open "/usr/local/lib/php/20060613/imagick.so" in Unknown on line 0
PHP Warning:  Module 'zip' already loaded in Unknown on line 0
PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library '/usr/local/lib/php/20060613/wddx.so' - Cannot open "/usr/local/lib/php/20060613/wddx.so" in Unknown on line 0 PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library '/usr/local/lib/php/20060613/sqlite.so' - /usr/local/lib/php/20060613/sqlite.so: Undefined symbol "spl_ce_Countable" in Unknown on line 0 PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library '/usr/local/lib/php/20060613/dba.so' - Cannot open "/usr/local/lib/php/20060613/dba.so" in Unknown on line 0 PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library '/usr/local/lib/php/20060613/bcmath.so' - Cannot open "/usr/local/lib/php/20060613/bcmath.so" in Unknown on line 0 PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library '/usr/local/lib/php/20060613/shmop.so' - Cannot open "/usr/local/lib/php/20060613/shmop.so" in Unknown on line 0 PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library '/usr/local/lib/php/20060613/readline.so' - Cannot open "/usr/local/lib/php/20060613/readline.so" in Unknown on line 0
PHP Warning:  Module 'gmp' already loaded in Unknown on line 0
PHP Warning:  Module 'bz2' already loaded in Unknown on line 0
PHP Warning:  Module 'calendar' already loaded in Unknown on line 0
PHP Warning:  Module 'ctype' already loaded in Unknown on line 0
PHP Warning:  Module 'curl' already loaded in Unknown on line 0
PHP Warning:  Module 'pcre' already loaded in Unknown on line 0
PHP Warning:  Module 'SimpleXML' already loaded in Unknown on line 0
PHP Warning:  Module 'dom' already loaded in Unknown on line 0
PHP Warning:  Module 'exif' already loaded in Unknown on line 0
PHP Warning:  Module 'ftp' already loaded in Unknown on line 0
PHP Warning:  Module 'gd' already loaded in Unknown on line 0
PHP Warning:  Module 'gettext' already loaded in Unknown on line 0
PHP Warning:  Module 'gmp' already loaded in Unknown on line 0
PHP Warning:  Module 'iconv' already loaded in Unknown on line 0
PHP Warning:  Module 'imap' already loaded in Unknown on line 0
PHP Warning:  Module 'mcrypt' already loaded in Unknown on line 0
PHP Warning:  Module 'mhash' already loaded in Unknown on line 0
PHP Warning:  Module 'ncurses' already loaded in Unknown on line 0
PHP Warning:  Module 'openssl' already loaded in Unknown on line 0
PHP Warning:  Module 'PDO' already loaded in Unknown on line 0
PHP Warning:  Module 'posix' already loaded in Unknown on line 0
PHP Warning:  Module 'session' already loaded in Unknown on line 0
PHP Warning:  Module 'soap' already loaded in Unknown on line 0
PHP Warning:  Module 'sysvmsg' already loaded in Unknown on line 0
PHP Warning:  Module 'sysvsem' already loaded in Unknown on line 0
PHP Warning:  Module 'sysvshm' already loaded in Unknown on line 0
PHP Warning:  Module 'tidy' already loaded in Unknown on line 0
PHP Warning:  Module 'tokenizer' already loaded in Unknown on line 0
PHP Warning:  Module 'xml' already loaded in Unknown on line 0
PHP Warning:  Module 'xmlreader' already loaded in Unknown on line 0
PHP Warning:  Module 'xmlrpc' already loaded in Unknown on line 0
PHP Warning:  Module 'xmlwriter' already loaded in Unknown on line 0
PHP Warning:  Module 'xsl' already loaded in Unknown on line 0
PHP Warning:  Module 'zip' already loaded in Unknown on line 0
PHP Warning:  Module 'zlib' already loaded in Unknown on line 0
PHP Warning:  Module 'mbstring' already loaded in Unknown on line 0
PHP Warning:  Module 'sockets' already loaded in Unknown on line 0
PHP 5.2.5 with Suhosin-Patch 0.9.6.2 (cli) (built: Feb 18 2008 19:47:06)
Copyright (c) 1997-2007 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.2.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2007 Zend Technologies
with eAccelerator v0.9.5.2, Copyright (c) 2004-2006 eAccelerator, by eAccelerator
   with Suhosin v0.9.18, Copyright (c) 2002-2006, by Hardened-PHP Project
Segmentation fault: 11 (core dumped)


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