Apache 2.2.14, installed via package management with all defaults, is seg faulting; multiple child processes are crashing during the business day when the server is at its heaviest load. I have been unsuccessful in all attempts to create core dumps for this server after following a number of steps. I have done the following: 1. Changed core file limits: ulimit -a shows unlimited for user root, as well as my own non-privileged user account. I also added it to /etc/profile. 2. Added the CoreDumpDirectory to the apache2.conf file and pointed it to /tmp/apache2-debug initially, then changed it to /var/cache/apache2 as per the instructions found in /usr/share/doc/apache2.2-common/README.backtrace 3. Restarted Apache; not reloaded, but actually service apache2 stop, then service apache2 start 4. chmod the dump directory to 777 I had made an image of this server prior to putting it into production, and used the image to create a virtual machine to test on. Following only the steps in that backtrace document above, I was able to get a core dump file created. For some reason I cannot get it working on the actual production server. Can folks who have successfully gotten core dumps share their experiences with me? --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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