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Bug #58434 php-fcgi segfault when cache fills
Submitted: 2008-11-26 10:54 UTC Modified: 2009-05-05 14:49 UTC
From: oliver at realtsp dot com Assigned:
Status: No Feedback Package: APC (PECL)
PHP Version: 5.2.5 OS: FreeBSD 7.0
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2008-11-26 10:54 UTC] oliver at realtsp dot com
Description:
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setup:

php-fcgi 5.2.6 (not 5.2.5 as above, need to add that as an
option ;-)
lighttpd 1.4.19
apc-CVS-2008-11-26

apc compiled with mmap memory, IPC semaphore locking.

enough php code to fill the cache
apc.shm_size=30 (make it small enough so that the code for
one request cannot fit, yes we do have 30MB of code in one
request)
apc.ttl=10 (any value >0)

php-fcgi segfaults on every request which "overfills" the
cache. the cache full count after such a request proces the
overfill.

APC-3.0.19 does not segfault under the same conditions.

A similar problem occurs when apc.ttl=0 (ie complete clean
on cache_full) but in this case you must hit the cache with
some concurrency (we are running on an 8cpu-core machine so
the concurrency is quite real). siege of 15 concurrent users
is sufficient to produce the segfault after a few seconds in
our setup.

We realise that these are extreme conditions (ie we have a
cache size which is really too small for the code), however
on our production machines which have enough cache 99% of
time, but do require cache_expunge occasionally (once per
week perhaps) we also get the same problem. We have reduced
the problem to something we can reproduce reliably in a
short period of time by making the conditions extreme.





Reproduce code:
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hit once to overfill cache and observe segfault

Expected result:
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no segfault

Actual result:
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segfault

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 [2008-12-30 05:41 UTC] gopalv82 at yahoo dot com
re-doing random slam tests with cache overfills, I'll see what breaks.
 [2009-01-20 07:35 UTC] oliver at realtsp dot com
Hi gopalv

Did you manage to do any tests/reproduce the problem. We are available to retest if required.
 [2009-03-17 00:37 UTC] shire@php.net
Can you please re-test the latest CVS?
 [2009-05-05 14:49 UTC] shire@php.net
No feedback was provided. The bug is being suspended because
we assume that you are no longer experiencing the problem.
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change the status of the bug back to "Open". Thank you.


 
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