Bug#485413: apache2: Apache crashes system due to exessive memory allocation

[Stefan Fritsch <sf@sfritsch.de>]

Hi Nico,

On Tuesday 10 June 2008, Nico Schottelius wrote:
> > Php 5.2.6 fixes some memory leaks. You could try 5.2.6-1 from
> > Debian unstable.
>
> Hmm, have to wait until it is in testing, as I don't want
> to mix up testing/unstable. Is there a way to get notified,
> as soon as it is available?

It will not migrate soon, because it has build problems on some 
architectures. You could subscribe to the php5 package on 
packages.qa.debian.org  to get notified.

> My next step would be to compile apache2.2.8 and php 5.2.6 from
> source with debugging symbols and run valgrind in front of it...
> hope I don't have to do it, because this implies installing
> full developement kit including mysql, postgresql, etc. dev
> pakets...

If you want to do that: For apache2, most libraries, and php since 
5.2.6-1, there are debugging symbols available in the *-dbg packages.

Cheers,
Stefan