Dear Konstantin,

thanks for the prompt response, this helps a lot!

> 1) If you see a way to replicate this crash, or some way to reliably cause
> the crash within 5-10 minutes after starting mhttpd, please let me know. I can work with that
> and I wish to fix this problem very much.

I wished I could! This happens 3-4 times per year only, so close to impossible to trigger.

> 2) My "wrong socket" check calls abort() to produce a core dump. In my experience these core dumps
> are useless for debugging the present problem. There is just no way to examine the state of each
> thread and of each http request using gdb by hand.
> 
> 3) this abort() causes linux to write a core dump, this takes a long time and I think it causes
> other MIDAS program to stop, timeout and die. You can try to fix this by disabling core dumps (set "enable core dumps"
> to "false" in ODB and set core dump size limit to 0), or change abort() to exit(). (You can also disable
> the "wrong socket" check, but most likely you will not like the result).
> 

I changed now to exit() rather than abort on the production machine. Perhaps this should be the default?

Andreas