PHP.EXE open dozens of times

[BSOD2600]

I installed Windows 2003 SP1 RC1 last night, hopeing it would fix the problem. It did not.

Since the problem started around the time I tried PHP 4.3.10, I decided that I'd give it a shot again. This morning after finding the server once again choked with tons of open cmd windows and concurrent connections with svchost.exe, I reinstalled php 4.3.10. So far, it's been 7 hours and there hasn't been any problems. I'm thinking this is the fix. If it truely IS the fix (I'll post back in a day or two), then I'm really confused why the heck downgrading caused this much of a problem.

The attached picture is just an idea of how often the server has been choking on itself, causing holes in my pretty graphs.

[BSOD2600]

It's been 24+ hours now and I have not had the problem occur again. Reinstalling PHP 4.3.10 was the fix. Odd, very odd.

[TheWitness]

My suspicion is that you may have had a system file of the old version somehow in your path causing php 4.3.9 not to work properly, or that the Microsoft patch actually did the trick. Good to know that you have it working.

TheWitness

[BSOD2600]

Just an update....

Well it seems the problems are not compleatly gone. While the server does not get out of control (yet, since I've caught it each time), the problem is still present. It does not happen ever few hours, but now every few days.

Should I try upgrading to php 5.0.3, or is that a whole new can of worms?

[vtmgr]

hmm...
going through my nightly cleaning out of dead processes, I happened to turn on additional columns in my taskmgr, and noticed all the dead php-wins had about 1.5MB reads, and 49B writes, and similarily all the dead cactids had about 1.8M reads, and 800K writes. Not at all sure what this means, but figured it might be a clue...

-oldguy