hi I'm running Zope 2.6.0 (instance_home) with Python 2.1.3 on FreeBSD 4.7. I applied this patch to Python (http://zwiki.org/PatchPython213) to increase the thread stack size as the instance in question runs a lot of wikis and Plone sites. Everything was fine for about 7-10 days but now i'm getting seemingly-random, repetitive and isolated python core dumps.

From looking at Apache logs, events.log and the undo "log" in the root of the instance, the only connection i can remotely make is that many requests were made at the moment it core dumped (and i can only say that for one of the times it core dumped.)

I'm running Plone beta 3 and zwiki 0.14.0. the ZODB is about 200MB. This is on a dual proc XEON machine with 2GB RAM. I know about this thread: http://mail.zope.org/pipermail/zope-dev/2002-September/thread.html#17416 But I'm not coming away with anything actionable other than perhaps apply a different patch to Python? Here's the output from gdb on the latest core dump: This GDB was configured as "i386-unknown-freebsd". Core was generated by `python2.1'. Program terminated with signal 10, Bus error. #0 0xa272b8c in ?? () Most other dumps were on signal 11 Can anyone suggest how i can go about interpreting this? Here is the output from /var/log/messages on the latest batch of core dumps: Feb 3 08:26:08 alpha /kernel: pid 84972 (python2.1), uid 1006: exited on signal 11 (core dumped) Feb 3 08:26:17 alpha /kernel: pid 92001 (python2.1), uid 1006: exited on signal 11 (core dumped) Feb 3 08:26:31 alpha /kernel: pid 92010 (python2.1), uid 1006: exited on signal 10 (core dumped) Feb 3 08:30:03 alpha /kernel: pid 92026 (python2.1), uid 1006: exited on signal 10 (core dumped) I'd appreciate any advice on how to go about analyzing this and finding a solution. thanks. <--> george donnelly - http://zettai.net/ - "We Love Newbies" :) Zope Hosting - Dynamic Website Design - Search Engine Promotion Yahoo, AIM: zettainet - ICQ: 51907738 - e:george@zettai.net