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Bug #26558 High load of OCI-Calls crash on multiprocessor machine with Apache2
Submitted: 2003-12-09 04:38 UTC Modified: 2003-12-16 10:55 UTC
Votes:1
Avg. Score:4.0 ± 0.0
Reproduced:0 of 0 (0.0%)
From: k_becker at kat dot de Assigned: tony2001 (profile)
Status: Closed Package: OCI8 related
PHP Version: 4.3.4 OS: Windows 2000 Adv. Server
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2003-12-09 04:38 UTC] k_becker at kat dot de 
Description:
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Platform: 4-CPU machine, Apache 2.0.39..48, PHP 4.3.x, Win 2000 Adv. server engl., OCI8, Oracle 8.1.7EE

When issuing multiple Oracle-requests at once, the Apache client thread dies with protection fault (C0000005) without any further message from PHP, Oracle or Apache.

Same code runs okay on one-CPU machine with same platform. Changing Apache to 1.3.28 helped.

Could be a problem within the PHP for Apache2 parallelization on more than one CPU.

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 [2003-12-10 05:56 UTC] k_becker at kat dot de 
I tried the "MaxThreadsPerChild=1" from Bug#19517. No crashes, but Apache "... ran out of threads".

Then set 
MaxRequestsPerChild 100000,
ThreadsPerChild 100
and tried using the explicit Oracle address string from TNSnames.ora. This seems to work.

Then tried php4-win32-STABLE-latest.zip of 2003-dec-10: Same result.

I now have: Apache/1.3.28 (Win32) PHP/4.3.5-dev, OCI8 Revision: 1.183.2.7 on Windows 2000 adv. server build 2195 with MaxRequestsPerChild 100000, ThreadsPerChild 100.

Temporary solution seems to be using the TNS address string in OCILogon("user", "pass", "(DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS_LIST=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=TCP)(HOST=127.0.0.1)(PORT=1521)))(CONNECT_DATA=(SID=xxx))")

So, problem seems to be in the Oracle/Oci8 name resolving in concurrent OCILogon()'s from multiple Apache/PHP-threads.
 [2003-12-10 09:19 UTC] tony2001@php.net 
it seems to me, this bug appears due to the fact, that current implementation of ext/oci8 doesn't use OCI_THREADED flag with OCIInitialize();

Maxim tells about it here:
http://www.zend.com/lists/php-dev/200301/msg00213.html

OCI docs about OCI's thread safety are here:
http://docs.linux.cz/Oracle8/server/a58234/new_adva.htm#427495

I think, I can add this feature shortly.
 [2003-12-16 10:55 UTC] tony2001@php.net 
This bug has been fixed in CVS.

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should be fixed in CVS.
 
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