freebsd stable - Jul 2003 - webmin and /kernel: pid 14356 (perl), uid 0: exited on signal 11 (core dumped)

Hello,

This is sort of a FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE question but it may be perl or 
webmin specific.

Jul 29 19:25:47 mira /kernel: pid 14356 (perl), uid 0: exited on signal 
11 (core dumped)
Jul 30 04:13:58 mira /kernel: pid 57914 (perl), uid 0: exited on signal 
10 (core dumped)
Jul 30 04:27:41 mira /kernel: pid 58813 (perl), uid 0: exited on signal 
11 (core dumped)

I see the above in /var/log/messages when using webmin, which results in 
the following...

root@mira ~ # l /usr/local/lib/webmin/perl.core
-rw-------   1 root     bin          3.9M Jul 30 17:29 
/usr/local/lib/webmin/perl.core

When I tail the log, the message appears after the initial load of the 
webmin page.  It also appears from time to time again when using 
webmin.  I have compiled nothing from source on this machine, everything 
is from ports.  I keep them up to date with portupgrade -ra  So, should 
I contact the webmin and or perl ports maintainer or just ask here?

Thanks in advance!

Rick Up

Colin Percival wrote:

 >   That's most often a symptom of flaky memory.  If I were you, I'd
grab the 4.8-RELEASE
 > sources and `make buildworld` a few times -- just the build, not 
installing anything --
 > because that tends to be good at detecting bad memory.  If you get 
any signal 10 or 11
 > messages during the buildworlds, you can be pretty certain that it's 
a hardware problem.

Colin,

Thanks for the reply.  Generally I tend to agree with you on the "signal 
10 or 11" errors relating to hot/bad hardware.  However, during the past 
several weeks I have noticed this webmin problem from day one but I 
didn't expect to run webmin in production so I didn't really worry about
it until now.  However, webmin has the best procmail front end I have 
found so it looks like we may be keeping it since this is a dedicated 
qmail+procmail machine.

I have performed many complete `make buildworld' (at least one every 
other day) during the development/testing phases and I have had no 
problems at all.  I have this LH3 running SMP and the only remaining 
anomaly is this webmin/perl core dump.  So, if you can think of anything 
else please let me know.  I hate to install a non-ports version of perl 
on this "all FreeBSD machine" but I am thinking that is going to 
probably solve this problem.

Thanks again!

Rick Up