Re: [users@httpd] apache segfault debugging with gdb - need advice

2015-08-22 Thread R T
>However, in my experience it is unusual for a too low limit on the number of open files to result in a segmentation fault. Especially in a well written program like Apache HTTPD. A well written program will normally check whether the >open (or any syscall which returns a file descriptor) failed an

Re: [users@httpd] apache segfault debugging with gdb - need advice

2015-08-21 Thread R T
Hi Daryl, Typically when I see a core dump when running siege, it is a resource issue. Out of memory, and/or I've reached the ulimit on my machine and need to set it higher. The limit is 1024 (displayed via ulimit -n), and can be changed via ulimit -n . This change isn't persistent - and the setti