Re: Strange server crash problem

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On Fri, 2006-09-08 at 00:05 -0500, Larry Garfield wrote:
> I'm not certain if this is a PHP problem per se, but as the problem manifests 
> itself in PHP I'll give it a go.
> 
> I've a PHP-based CMS for a site that I am maintaining.  It's a large site with 
> a few thousand pages.  Most of them work fine.  However, twice now we've run 
> into a problem where a specific page will exhibit very odd behavior.
> 
> When building the page, the script will seemingly terminate after it outputs 
> about 4 KB of data.  It's not exactly 4 KB, but it's always about 4 KB of 
> data.  If I add debugging information to the page, it will still stop at 
> about 4 KB of data, which is then less "real" output.
> 
> The damned thing is, the 4KB mark is reached while outputting the left-side 
> navigation bar.  The way the CMS is structured (I didn't write it), that 
> happens before any page-specific content is even loaded.  There shouldn't be 
> anything different about the code there yet.  
> 
> I've been unable to figure out why it happens.  Any idea what to check?  I'm 
> stumped.
> 
> The server itself is (get this) a Windows/IIS box running PHP 4.0.6 (yes, 
> really) and MS SQL server via ODBC.  I unfortunately do not have direct 
> access to the box, so I can't check server logs myself.

Binary search using error_log() and __LINE__ output to track down where
the thing dies.

Cheers,
Rob.

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