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On Tue, 23 Jan 2001 gary@pandemic.itc.nrcs.usda.gov wrote:
>
> We are experiencing intermittent cores during execution of a perl app
> using the DBD::Informix module. It happens with greater frequency when
> the system is busy, but it also happens that the exact procedure can
> be rerun successfully just a few minutes after a crash. I don't have
> a lot to work with, except that each gdb stack trace shows the failure
> happens in malloc, but the malloc is not always called from the same
> place. Many other processes are running at the same time without any
> malloc failures, and vmstat shows plenty of memory available. A sample
> stack trace looks like this:
>
> #0 0x2a09c in malloc ()
> #1 0xff087728 in _iqprepare () from /usr/informix9/lib/esql/libifsql.so
> #2 0xff087580 in sqli_prep () from /usr/informix9/lib/esql/libifsql.so
> #3 0xff0ea7d0 in dbd_ix_st_prepare ()
> from /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/sun4-solaris/auto/DBD/Informix/Inf
Does it always coredump in the esql libraries ? Can you make an equivalent
esql/c program that exhibits the same behaviour ? If the answer to these
is 'yes' then you might be experiencing a bug in the esql libraries.
On the other hand it might be a problem with DBD::Informix in which case you
might want to submit a bug report ( if you have a version >= 1.00 PC1 )
using the InformixTechSupport tool.
/J\
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