[Phpwiki-talk] httpd crashing

[aphid <me...@ap...>]

I've done a bit more research on this error
here's a summation of what's going on.

when a wikipage reaches a certain length threshold (which seems to 
change based on markup and maybe whitespace), httpd crashes and will 
not bring up the page.  when the page is saved, it also crashes, but 
the changes seem to have been sent before the crash occurs.  The 
threshold appears to be between 1100 and 1300 characters (a few short 
paragraphs), and I'm not entirely sure what causes it to change for a 
particular page.  I've had pages where it works at 1353 and 1127, add a 
character and it will crash.  I have no explanation for the 
variability.. maybe a difference of wiki markup characters and white 
space?

the error in the log is coming up as:
[Mon Nov 25 22:46:54 2002] [notice] child pid 422 exit signal Illegal 
instruction (4)

pid 422 of course being httpd

I am running Apache 1.3.27 with php 4.2.3 on darwin (os X 10.2.2).  
This first popped up with a server at school (a dual g4 running the 
above) and I have mirrored it at home on my flat panel imac (also 
running the above).  Originally occurred in a cvs wiki from ~2 wks ago, 
updated both of them to current and the error is still happening.

any help is greatly appreciated
cheers
a