Re: Problem with long http request generation time - process restarting

Sorry, just a clumsy cell phone touch.

- Perrin
On Jan 27, 2012 5:42 PM, "Perrin Harkins" <[email protected]> wrote:

> - Perrin
> On Jan 13, 2012 6:47 PM, "Andrew Merton (subscriptions)" <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>>  On 17/12/2011 7:20 a.m., Randolf Richardson wrote:
>>
>>  Thanks for the responses :)
>>
>> However - I just read another thread somewhere that made me think of
>> looking in the Event log.
>>
>> It appears that the culprit is Oracle - there are errors
>> naming OraOCIEI11.dll as the "Faulting Module name".
>>
>>
>> 	That's very interesting.  Windows Event Viewer is a good place to
>> look (I keep forgetting about it as I'm used to /var/log/messages in
>> Unix/Linux and similar environments).
>>
>>  Well.  It turns out that in this case the event log was actually a red
>> herring. By creating another Apache instance (to avoid breaking the
>> "production" server :)) and stripping out all references to Oracle, DBI,
>> DBD etc from both httpd.conf and the Perl, I have determined that the
>> problem has nothing to do with Oracle.
>>
>> After doing that, I was getting exception code 0xC00000FD (Stack
>> overflow) in Classify.dll (Params::Classify?) so I tried setting the
>> ThreadStackSize to 2MB, and now I get 0xC0000005 and the module is unknown
>> according to the Event log.
>>
>> I think I'm going mad.
>>
>> Is there a way to make Apache/mod_perl (on Windows 7) give me a stack
>> dump when the child process exits?  Al I get in the log is the "Parent:
>> child process exited ..." message, which is not very helpful.  I have
>> downloaded the -symbols.zip files from ActiveState and installed them in
>> the proper directories (alongside their .dlls), but then realised that I'm
>> not getting the equivalent of a core dump file to analyze.  The Event log
>> points to a directory containing only a text file (*.wer) which doesn't
>> have anything useful AFAICS...
>>
>> Andrew
>>
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