I'm running Apache/mod_perl 2 under a Linux OS (forked MPM's) with Perl 5.8.7 compiled, where each Apache child has a number of threads, cond_waiting on a locked shared reference, haning out and waiting for cond_signals. 

$threads::VERSION         = 0.99;
$threads::shared::VERSION = 0.90;

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The issue I keep running into is my Apache children seem to randomly get shot by a SIGALRM.

Example: 
[Mon Oct 23 16:01:07 2006] [notice] child pid  exit signal Alarm clock
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Without going to deep into the application it's self (it's too complex for this post), I should point out that I am using alarm()s in the app. Though, they are all being handled, all in a local context. Subsequently, if I take the threads out, I don't have this issue.

My question simply is (multi-part): I'm now trying to simply catch the SIGALRM in the child and sink it before it kills the child, however this is certainly something I don't want to do moving foward. Any thoughts?

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perl -le '$.=[qw(104 97 124 124 116 97)];*p=sub{[@{$_[0]},(45)x 2]};*d=sub{[(45)x 2,@{$_[0]}]};print map{chr}@{p(d($.))}'

In reply to Random SIGALRM in mod_perl by wazzuteke

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