Dr. Watson Vs. PHP

Anon

ok so i was getting a lot of Dr. Watsons and PHP.exe was crashing like mad.. so I upgraded to latest PHP and this seemed to help, however now we are still crashing PHP.exe like crazy!! we started rebooting the server it is on every other day (NT cant run for more than a few hours without coming to its knees)

Am I alone in this Dr. Watson Vs. PHP hell? or are there others out there? should I start a support group?

Any suggestions on how to stabalize this system?

P2400 128 MB RAM
apache 1.3.17
PHP 4.04pl1

ppavlovic

I'm having the same problem. But, fortunately (or not), problem is in debugger module (from http://dd.cron.ru/dbg/). When I unload it, it works fine until...
the script executes MySQL query when there is no connection to server. This is a random bug, and I think that guys prom php.net can't do anything about it, unless you locate the problem.
Try going to bugs.php.net, and report the problem, if you can reproduce it.

My machine is
Celeron 433
128MB RAM
Apache 1.3.19
PHP4.05 as apache module

Anon

hello,

we are running NT4SP6 with netscape enterprise server,php4.0.4pl1 and mysql
on one of our servers (Athlon 800 512M😎,
it handles about 150,000 page requests per day...no memory leaks, no crashes...we reboot monthly!

.nu

ame12

My advice: you've got to identify the page or pages that are causing the problem. I've seen no instability w/PHP except for a couple of rare coding constructs that have sent PHP into space. For example, with 4.0.3, I had problems with the sprintf function group, so I constructed my strings manually.

If you can identify which page or pages (try the server logs first) are causing the most trouble, try isolating them in some test scripts.

Dave

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Anon

Did you get any news ?? I'm having the same crash problem when accessing my page via a POST from a form in an htm page...
It behaves normally when I access the page directly.

Thanks a lot.
AnneSo

Anon

going to PHP 4.1 has taken care of all our Dr. Watson programs