webmin-0.990-1 spawns several processes and locks server

[Andrew K. <ak...@ra...>]

I recently installed webmin on a server and when I attempt to access
the server it quickly spawns several processes which eat up all the
memory until the server locks up. I can sometimes kill the webmin
process before the server locks up. This seems pretty serious.
Clearly webmin is in some kind of infinite loop. Any help would
be greatly appreciated.

Some background on this machine:

Redhat 7.0

webmin-0.990-1
openssl-0.9.6-9
apache-1.3.22-1.7.1
sendmail-8.11.6-2.7.0

Linux 2.2.16-22 #1 Tue Aug 22 16:49:06 EDT 2000 i686 unknown

                      total       used       free     shared    buffers
cached
Mem:        192648      61628     131020      29160       4484      33864
-/+ buffers/cache:      23280     169368
Swap:       273064      18624     254440


Linux version 2.2.16-22 (ro...@po...) (gcc version
egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)) #1 Tue Aug 22 16:49:06 EDT
2000
Detected 598629 kHz processor.
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 1196.03 BogoMIPS
Memory: 192648k/196544k available (1048k kernel code, 412k reserved, 2372k
data, 64k init, 0k bigmem)
Dentry hash table entries: 262144 (order 9, 2048k)
Buffer cache hash table entries: 262144 (order 8, 1024k)
Page cache hash table entries: 65536 (order 6, 256k)
VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.4.0 initialized
CPU: Intel Pentium III (Coppermine) stepping 03
Checking 386/387 coupling... OK, FPU using exception 16 error reporting.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
mtrr: v1.35a (19990819) Richard Gooch (rg...@at...)
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfd993
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.2
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0 for Linux NET4.0.
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
TCP: Hash tables configured (ehash 262144 bhash 65536)
Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM
Initializing RT netlink socket
Starting kswapd v 1.5
Detected PS/2 Mouse Port.
Serial driver version 4.27 with MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ enabled
ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.13)
Real Time Clock Driver v1.09
RAM disk driver initialized:  16 RAM disks of 4096K size
PIIX4: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39
PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
    ide0: BM-DMA at 0x1820-0x1827, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
    ide1: BM-DMA at 0x1828-0x182f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio
hda: QUANTUM FIREBALLP LM30.0, ATA DISK drive
hdc: CRD-8480C, ATAPI CDROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: QUANTUM FIREBALLP LM30.0, 28629MB w/1900kB Cache, CHS=3649/255/63
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MAX_REAL=12
raid5: measuring checksumming speed
raid5: MMX detected, trying high-speed MMX checksum routines
   pII_mmx   :  1331.976 MB/sec
   p5_mmx    :  1399.032 MB/sec
   8regs     :  1028.319 MB/sec
   32regs    :   576.453 MB/sec
using fastest function: p5_mmx (1399.032 MB/sec)
scsi : 0 hosts.
scsi : detected total.
md.c: sizeof(mdp_super_t) = 4096
Partition check:
 hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 hda6 hda7 hda8 >
autodetecting RAID arrays
autorun ...
... autorun DONE.
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 64k freed
Adding Swap: 273064k swap-space (priority -1)
Linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartmann
agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 149M
agpgart: Detected Intel 440BX chipset
agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xf8000000
rtl8139.c:v1.07 5/6/99 Donald Becker
http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/rtl8139.html
eth0: RealTek RTL8139 Fast Ethernet at 0x1000, IRQ 10, 00:50:bf:e4:8f:34.
eth1: RealTek RTL8139 Fast Ethernet at 0x1400, IRQ 10, 00:50:bf:e4:8f:49.
eth0: Promiscuous mode enabled.
device eth0 entered promiscuous mode
eth0: Promiscuous mode enabled.
eth0: Promiscuous mode enabled.
hdc: ATAPI 48X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.10