jai has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

hi,
I doubt this problem is exactly related to perl, but while using mason (a HTML template Tool), a perl SAPDB library & apache, i get panic: magic_killbackrefs during global destruction. in the error_log file. The server goes on eating memory and finaly crashes.
Since Mason is a perl program, I guess theres some problem in the use of perl. Anyone having idea please respond.
jai..

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Re: problem with apache
by PodMaster (Abbot) on Sep 08, 2003 at 06:56 UTC
    It's trivial to check if it's a perl thing (perldoc perltoc|grep -i magic_killbackrefs, perldoc perldiag|grep -i magic_killbackrefs).

    `perldoc perldiag' :
    panic: magic_killbackrefs
    (P) Failed an internal consistency check while trying to reset all weak references to an object.

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      You can also pipe the error in question through splain after the fact, or add use diagnostics to your code.

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      thanks for the info, i didnt know about perldoc perldiag.
      jai..
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