What does total RAM look like, and is there a swap partition?

I'm wondering if Apache and MySQL are battling for RAM

Greg Rundlett
https://eQuality-Tech.com
https://freephile.org


On Thu, Apr 18, 2019 at 4:00 PM Mike Brown <[email protected]> wrote:

> After updating MediaWiki, PHP, and MySQL, I'm fairly consistently getting
> php-fpm worker crashes when I try to edit articles on my wiki.
>
> I think I can rule out database corruption. mysql_check says everything is
> OK,
> and even after dropping the database and restoring from a mysqldump
> backup,
> the crashes continue.
>
> I've enabled error reporting & logging in php.ini, php-fpm.conf, and
> my.cnf.
>
> The MySQL log reveals that the crash, if it happens (it doesn't always) is
> always right after a certain MySQL query runs. Meanwhile, php_error.log
> says
> nothing (but is working), and php-fpm.log says nothing of note, just
> "[pool
> www] child 17491 exited on signal 11 (SIGSEGV - core dumped) after
> 0.000125
> seconds from start".
>
> After adjusting some kernel settings and rebuilding PHP with
> --enable-debug, I
> managed to finally get some core dumps with symbols. Using gdb, I saw in
> one
> of them that it looks like pcre could be to blame:
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> [...]
> Reading symbols from /usr/local/sbin/php-fpm...done.
> [New LWP 100226]
> Core was generated by `php-fpm: pool www'.
> Program terminated with signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
> #0  0x26641354 in ?? ()
> (gdb) bt
> #0  0x26641354 in ?? ()
> #1  0x2065b634 in ?? () from /usr/local/lib/libpcre.so.1
> Backtrace stopped: previous frame identical to this frame (corrupt stack?)
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> However, even after updating pcre, PHP and all its extensions, and nginx,
> the
> crashes persist, again at the same spot. And now, for some reason, the
> backtrace is no longer mentioning pcre by name:
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> [...]
> Reading symbols from /usr/local/sbin/php-fpm...done.
> [New LWP 100136]
> Core was generated by `php-fpm: pool www'.
> Program terminated with signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
> #0  0x268b5412 in ?? ()
> (gdb) bt
> #0  0x268b5412 in ?? ()
> #1  0x26564d64 in ?? ()
> Backtrace stopped: previous frame identical to this frame (corrupt stack?)
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Anyway, here is the last message in the MySQL log just before the crash:
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> SELECT /* LCStoreDB::get  */  lc_value  FROM `mw_l10n_cache`    WHERE
> lc_lang = 'en' AND lc_key = 'magicWords'  LIMIT 1
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> And here is what the next message is, those times when there is no crash:
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> SELECT /* WikiPage::pageData  */
> page_id,page_namespace,page_title,page_restrictions,page_is_redirect,page_is_new,page_random,page_touched,page_links_updated,page_latest,page_len,page_content_model
> FROM `mw_page`    WHERE page_namespace = '2' AND page_title =
> 'Mjb/FreeBSD_on_BeagleBone_Black/Additional_software'  LIMIT 1;
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Both of these queries are benign; I can run them from the MySQL client or
> from
> a simple PHP CGI test webpage with no problem.
>
> Does anyone have any idea what could be going wrong or how to further
> diagnose?
>
> Thanks,
> Mike
>
>
> (Info about my system follows:)
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> FreeBSD 12.0-RELEASE-p3 running on a BeagleBone Black.
>
> The MySQL connections are via sockets, not TCP.
>
> selected output from 'pkg info':
>
> mediawiki132-php72-1.32.0      Wiki engine used by Wikipedia
> mysql57-client-5.7.25          Multithreaded SQL database (client)
> mysql57-server-5.7.25          Multithreaded SQL database (server)
> nginx-1.14.2_13,2              Robust and small WWW server
> pcre-8.43_1                    Perl Compatible Regular Expressions library
> php72-7.2.17_2                 PHP Scripting Language
> php72-ctype-7.2.17_2           The ctype shared extension for php
> php72-curl-7.2.17_2            The curl shared extension for php
> php72-dom-7.2.17_2             The dom shared extension for php
> php72-fileinfo-7.2.17_2        The fileinfo shared extension for php
> php72-hash-7.2.17_2            The hash shared extension for php
> php72-iconv-7.2.17_2           The iconv shared extension for php
> php72-intl-7.2.17_2            The intl shared extension for php
> php72-json-7.2.17_2            The json shared extension for php
> php72-mbstring-7.2.17_2        The mbstring shared extension for php
> php72-mysqli-7.2.17_2          The mysqli shared extension for php
> php72-opcache-7.2.17_2         The opcache shared extension for php
> php72-openssl-7.2.17_2         The openssl shared extension for php
> php72-pcntl-7.2.17_2           The pcntl shared extension for php
> php72-pdo-7.2.17_2             The pdo shared extension for php
> php72-pdo_mysql-7.2.17_2       The pdo_mysql shared extension for php
> php72-posix-7.2.17_2           The posix shared extension for php
> php72-readline-7.2.17_2        The readline shared extension for php
> php72-session-7.2.17_2         The session shared extension for php
> php72-xml-7.2.17_2             The xml shared extension for php
> php72-xmlreader-7.2.17_2       The xmlreader shared extension for php
> php72-xmlrpc-7.2.17_2          The xmlrpc shared extension for php
> php72-zlib-7.2.17_2            The zlib shared extension for php
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
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