PHP - What does "Segmentation fault (core dumped)"-Error means?

Question

I wrote a simple crawler using Simple HTML Dom Parser to scrape some stuff.

It's a simple script only running with 1 process and nothing massive. But after some time it produces a "Segmentation fault (core dumped)"-error, when I am running it in the shell.

When I run the script in the browser it says

"Error: The connection to the server was reset while the page was loading.".

I have made sure to unset() every variable as soon as possible and also increased the memory_limit in php.ini, but still I get this error :/

Does someone know what it means and how to solve it?

Thanks for any suggestions!

Answer 1

I have this problem when a made a recursive loop by accident, so it runs out of memory. But the way it tells me is by making a Segmentation fault (core dumped) error!

So look a the code you most recently wrote and check if you made a error like this! My example was very simple (and stupid). I was just a little to fast to accept the autocomplete's suggestion :)

public function getAttendees()
{
    return $this->getAttendees();
}

Hope this can help someone in the future