PHP/Oracle Silent Apache Crash

Dear PHP Community, Thank you for taking a moment to read our request for assistance. =) We are struggling to build PHP with the Oracle extension as a dynamic shared object (DSO/Apache module) under Linux Redhat 6.2. The entire Apache configuration includes: openssl-devel-0.9.5-2 openssl-0.9.5-2 apache-mod_ssl-devel-1.3.12.2.6.3-1 apache-mod_ssl-1.3.12.2.6.3-1 mm-1.0.12-1 php-4.0.0 w/Easysoft ODBC Bridge, Oracle/OCI8 and WDDX extensions All standard Apache modules (e.g., mod_alias, mod_rewrite, etc...) We have successfully built PHP (with the Oracle extension) and connected and queried an Oracle database as: PHP 4.0.0 (with Oracle support) as a binary PHP 4.0.0 (with Oracle support) statically built into Apache 1.3.12 Silent crash occurs with: php 3.0.16 php 4.0.0 Since PHP binary is inefficient because it has to load the PHP interpreter and PHP statically creates 2M httpd consuming too much memory we are at a loss. Do we need different Oracle libs or is this a real issue? Warm regards, Michael Nino Internet Developer 480 333 3483 mnino@insight.com Insight, Inc. "A Fortune 1000 Company"