I have XAMPP 1.7.1 installed on my development PC. (Drupal doesn't play nice with versions >1.7.1.) I don't know what happened last week, but since then, if I start Apache, one of the httpd.exe processes starts opening handles at an alarming rate, eventually making the Windows nonpaged memory pool run out and my PC crash.
The httpd.exe handle count reaches 2.5 MILLION in a couple of minutes!
I have searched, but can't find many mentions of this problem. I'm unsure where to begin debugging this. (I uninstalled 1.7.1, backed up the config files I'd modified, and reinstalled 1.7.1. The problem persists.) Thanks for your help; having to shift development to a remote server will slow me down quite a bit.
DevMonkey