title: Apache automatically restarting itself every couple of requests
body: <p>I just started having a problem where Apache will automatically restart after every few requests it receives. It's been working fine for a long time and I'm not sure why this would happen. The only thing I did recently was add an entry to my vhosts file to listen for another virtual host on the IP that it's running on. However, I reset that back to what it was and I'm still seeing the problem.</p>
  
  <p>This is what the error.log shows:</p>
  
  <pre><code>[Fri Feb 12 16:29:12 2010] [notice] Parent: child process exited with status 0 -- Restarting.
  [Fri Feb 12 16:29:13 2010] [notice] Apache/2.2.8 (Win32) DAV/2 mod_fastcgi/2.4.6 mod_ssl/2.2.8 OpenSSL/0.9.8g mod_autoindex_color mod_auth_sspi/1.0.1 SVN/1.4.3 PHP/5.2.5 configured -- resuming normal operations
  [Fri Feb 12 16:29:13 2010] [notice] Server built: Jan 18 2008 00:37:19
  [Fri Feb 12 16:29:13 2010] [notice] Parent: Created child process 6732
  [Fri Feb 12 16:29:14 2010] [notice] Child 6732: Child process is running
  [Fri Feb 12 16:29:14 2010] [notice] Child 6732: Acquired the start mutex.
  [Fri Feb 12 16:29:14 2010] [notice] Child 6732: Starting 250 worker threads.
  [Fri Feb 12 16:29:14 2010] [notice] FastCGI: process manager initialized
  [Fri Feb 12 16:29:15 2010] [notice] Child 6732: Starting thread to listen on port 443.
  [Fri Feb 12 16:29:15 2010] [notice] Child 6732: Starting thread to listen on port 82.
  [Fri Feb 12 16:29:15 2010] [notice] Child 6732: Starting thread to listen on port 81.
  [Fri Feb 12 16:29:15 2010] [notice] Child 6732: Starting thread to listen on port 80.
  [Fri Feb 12 16:29:22 2010] [error] [client 192.168.3.12] (20024)The given path misformatted or contained invalid characters: Cannot map GET /wiki/index.php/Special:Random HTTP/1.1 to file, referer: http://review.laughlin.com:81/wiki/index.php/FullCircle
  [Fri Feb 12 16:29:22 2010] [notice] Parent: child process exited with status 0 -- Restarting.
  [Fri Feb 12 16:29:23 2010] [notice] Apache/2.2.8 (Win32) DAV/2 mod_fastcgi/2.4.6 mod_ssl/2.2.8 OpenSSL/0.9.8g mod_autoindex_color mod_auth_sspi/1.0.1 SVN/1.4.3 PHP/5.2.5 configured -- resuming normal operations
  [Fri Feb 12 16:29:23 2010] [notice] Server built: Jan 18 2008 00:37:19
  [Fri Feb 12 16:29:23 2010] [notice] Parent: Created child process 7252
  [Fri Feb 12 16:29:24 2010] [notice] Child 7252: Child process is running
  [Fri Feb 12 16:29:24 2010] [notice] Child 7252: Acquired the start mutex.
  [Fri Feb 12 16:29:24 2010] [notice] Child 7252: Starting 250 worker threads.
  [Fri Feb 12 16:29:24 2010] [notice] FastCGI: process manager initialized
  [Fri Feb 12 16:29:24 2010] [notice] Child 7252: Starting thread to listen on port 443.
  [Fri Feb 12 16:29:24 2010] [notice] Child 7252: Starting thread to listen on port 82.
  [Fri Feb 12 16:29:24 2010] [notice] Child 7252: Starting thread to listen on port 81.
  [Fri Feb 12 16:29:24 2010] [notice] Child 7252: Starting thread to listen on port 80.
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I'm running it through XAMPP (not my preference, but was set up before me) and here are the versions it lists:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Apache 2.2.8
  MySQL 5.0.51
  PHP 5.2.5 + PHP 4.4.8 rc2 dev + PEAR
  PHP-Switch win32 1.0 (please use the "php-switch.bat")
  XAMPP Control Version 2.5 from www.nat32.com    
  XAMPP Security 1.0  
  SQLite 2.8.15
  OpenSSL 0.9.8g
  phpMyAdmin 2.11.4
  ADOdb 4.96
  Mercury Mail Transport System v4.52
  FileZilla FTP Server 0.9.25
  Webalizer 2.01-10
  Zend Optimizer 3.3.0a
  eAccelerator 0.9.5.2 for PHP 5.2.5  (comment out in the php.ini)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Does anyone know any reasons this could be happening? I've trying manually restarting the Apache service many times without luck. Also found some suggestions to replace the libmysql.dll or other files in the bin, but I haven't had any luck with that either.</p>
  
  <p>The only other thing I've done recently on that server is trying to get PHP running in IIS (which was already running on the machine for a long time on a different IP, but I was just trying to enable PHP). I had no luck with that so I've now disabled the attempts I made.</p>