[users@httpd] child pid 28594 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)

[Arun G Nair <arungnair@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi list,
   I get this error in my error_log. Its apache 1.3. I get
this when I use 'ab' to benchmark. What could be the reason ?

$ ab -n 1000 -c 10 <site>/index.php

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Server Software:        Apache/1.3.33
Server Hostname:        66.160.128.92
Server Port:            80

Document Path:          /index.php
Document Length:        20308 bytes

Concurrency Level:      10
Time taken for tests:   44.599194 seconds
Complete requests:      1000
Failed requests:        573
   (Connect: 0, Length: 573, Exceptions: 0)
Write errors:           0
Total transferred:      21075251 bytes
HTML transferred:       20267251 bytes
Requests per second:    22.42 [#/sec] (mean)
Time per request:       445.992 [ms] (mean)
Time per request:       44.599 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)
Transfer rate:          461.47 [Kbytes/sec] received

Connection Times (ms)
              min  mean[+/-sd] median   max
Connect:        0   
0   1.4     
0      18
Processing:     6  425 1201.5     22    5567
Waiting:        1  424 1201.4     21    5566
Total:          6 
425 1201.5     22    5567

Percentage of the requests served within a certain time (ms)
  50%     22
  66%     25
  75%     27
  80%     29
  90%   2591
  95%   3984
  98%   4124
  99%   4244
 100%   5567 (longest request)

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Also I wanna know whether this output is optimal for a server which gets almost 10,000 hits/day.

-Arun