Re: WWW Form Bug Report: "Multi-processor kernel panic and dump" on SCO

Rob Hartill wrote:
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> I'll pass th info on to the developers list.

Clearly nothing Apache does should cause the system to crash. This is really SCO's problem. That said, it would be interesting to know what caused the problem, and consider working around it. Have you reported the problem to SCO?

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> >Only happens when apache is receiving hits. We have
> >other installations running SCO's multi-processor
> >code under significant load without a hitch?

I'm not aware of any feedback on that.

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> >Please help if possible.
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> >Backtrace:
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> >It's dumping core, but not leaving any register
> >information behind, which is really strange.
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> >Thanks for any help you might offer.
> >
> >Here's a question...does apache support multi-
> >processors?

Apache has no need to support multi-processors. That's the OS's job. It's possible that future releases could take advantage of them.

Cheers,

Ben.

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