On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 12:16 PM, Markus Meyer <markus.meyer@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > I enabled CoreDumpDirectory in httpd.conf, made a "ulimit -c unlimited" and > started Apache. When I had a segfault there was no corefile in the specified > directory and Apache was still running. Only the forked process was gone and > a new was spawned. After two days or sometimes a week Apache gets really > slow and can handle only a fourth or less of it's usual traffic. It is expected that apache should still be running, but you should be able to get a core file. Without the core file, it is almost impossible to debug a segfault. There is a little more guidance here: http://httpd.apache.org/dev/debugging.html#crashes Joshua. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx