[Mediawiki-l] faulting module php5ts.dll - definitive answer?

[Daniel Barrett]

Daniel Barrett wrote:
> I'm running MediaWiki 1.9.3 on a dual core Windows 2003 server, 2 GB 
> RAM, with Apache 2.2.4 and PHP 5.2.1. (Actually it's a VMware virtual
> machine.) A few times each day we get this error in the Windows error
> log:
> 
>   Faulting application httpd.exe, version 2.2.4.0, faulting module 
>   php5ts.dll, version 5.2.1.1, fault address 0x0000ae66

I have solved the problem by upgrading PHP to the latest snapshot of 5.2
from snaps.php.net. Thanks to Tim Starling for suggesting to try other
software versions.

To validate the solution, I wrote a script to hit MediaWiki's
"Special:Random" page with "wget" 1000 times, and ran 3 of them
simultaneously. No errors. Repeated the test. No errors.

I restored the old PHP 5.2.1 and ran the scripts, and got an error in
the first 10 seconds.

Case closed (and rejoicing).

DanB