Apache 1.3.37 crashes with Cache::Memcached 1.20 and higher

[Kevin Old]

On 7/17/07, Matthieu PATOU <mp at oxado.com> wrote:
> Kevin Old a écrit :
> > Hello everyone,
> >
> > We've been using memcached and Cache::Memcached for several years now
> > and have been running fine on version 1.18 of Cache::Memcached for
> > over a year.
> >
> > We recently added a few new servers to our cluster and installed the
> > latest Cache::Memcached from CPAN and find that from versions 1.20
> > thru 1.23 for 1 out of every 100 requests to varying pages results in
> > a crash of the Apache child process (output is below).  A new child is
> > spawned, but that user's request isn't completed.
> >
> > Is anyone else seeing this problem?
> >
> It's a problem do to a weird problem with the orassign operator in PERL.
> See http://lists.danga.com/pipermail/memcached/2007-June/004511.html
> I'm quite sure that the code in SVN already integrate the fix.

Hi Matthieu,

Thanks for your reply.  We'd like to wait for this patch to make it
into a release before trying again.  Any idea when 1.24 will be
released?

Thanks,
Kevin
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Kevin Old
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