PHP 4.0 Bug #8446 Updated: PHP/apache process is in infinite loop or appears to suck CPU

ID: 8446 Updated by: derick Reported By: michael@audiogalaxy.com Old-Status: Open Status: Feedback Bug Type: *General Issues Assigned To: Comments: Rasmus replyed: We cannot possibly track this down for you based on this. You will need to attach gdb to one of these looped processes and see where it is looping. Previous Comments: --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [2000-12-27 19:31:40] michael@audiogalaxy.com Below is a report from top for a SMP machine. This happens to all of our webservers every day or so a few machine have one two httpd processes eating CPU. This same problem also happens on the last two or more previous versions of php. A simple kill -9 pid removes it w/o killing the whole webserver. Below are the apache and httpd configuration lines: ./configure --with-mysql --enable-track-vars --with-zlib --with-apache=$apachedir --with-gd=$gddir --with-jpeg-dir=$gddir --with-config-file-path=/common/globalconfig/php --enable-memory-limit ./configure --with-layout=production --activate-module=src/modules/php4/libphp4.a An interesting aspect that is amount of memory each processing using 100% CPU is around 50megs. We have the memory limit set in php as 30M. 1 processes: 85 sleeping, 6 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped CPU0 states: 70.0% user, 4.0% system, 0.0% nice, 25.0% idle CPU1 states: 53.0% user, 4.0% system, 0.0% nice, 41.0% idle Mem: 1036464K av, 1006188K used, 30276K free, 149244K shrd, 32068K buff Swap: 136512K av, 1124K used, 135388K free 677272K cached PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND 7763 nobody 9 0 53808 52M 2172 R 99.9 5.1 1527m httpd 6825 nobody 0 0 4320 4320 2272 S 9.2 0.4 0:00 httpd 6779 nobody 0 0 4912 4912 2276 S 6.4 0.4 0:00 httpd 6830 root 4 0 1036 1036 812 R 6.4 0.0 0:00 top Thanks for your help - this has been a real nagging problem for us that we keep thinking is resolved in the next version. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Full Bug description available at: http://bugs.php.net/?id=8446