server crashes - Apache/2.0.44 (Win32) w PHP/4.2.4-dev

Hi List!

I did post this to the apache list already - but noone could help
me - maybe one of you can.
I am not sure whether this is an apache or php or even w2k
problem - maybe anything like this has happend to you already.

Thank you!

Hi apache users!

We have a strange problem with our Apache 2.
We run several programs using the php exec() command.

Every once in a while our server crashes - as far as we know if
the first command started using exec() crashes or waits for a
response - all the following halt and wait und use a worker
thread until we have 128 busy and zero idle workers.
If I the open the task manager I see up to 20 cmd.exe calls
open.

Does anybody know about this? Did it ever happen to you?
We checked out many things - nothing helped maybe you have
an idea.

Any comment is appreciated....

Setup:
Server Version: Apache/2.0.44 (Win32)
mod_ssl/2.0.44 OpenSSL/0.9.7 PHP/4.2.4-dev
Server Built: Jan 23 2003 01:51:21

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