On Sat, May 26, 2007 at 09:46:20AM -0300, Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman wrote: >> And one more 'trick'. try to enable CoreDumpDirectory in Apache config >> (in Apache start script as well - ulimit) and analyse coredumps. It >> helps a lot. > I tried the gdb approach, but the process died. And the backtrace had two ? items and the last was, > of course, my function, but thanks for this new tip! Probably APR functions... Try to recompile Apache, APR and APU with debugging info (-ggdb flag for gcc) enabled. It will increase size of binaries but on the other hand you will be given full backtrace info.