Re: gzip+squid3 code

fre 2006-09-01 klockan 14:47 -0500 skrev Joe Cooper:

> I'll just add that the code did work exactly as it was supposed to, in
> my testing at the time, but there remained at least one serious memory
> leak (possibly others) that led to it being unusable.

Memory leaks is luckily pretty easy to find these days thanks to
valgrind. Just need to forward port a little glue from 2.6 to unleash
it's full potential.

> I believe all
> crashes that I experienced running the code were attributable to this
> leak. Whether there are other issues that never had a chance to exhibit
> themselves is unknown to me.

With it being an early Squid-3 alpha I would suspect you to have been
bitten by some of the generic Squid-3 bugs as well.

> Ganzalo was running it, I believe, in production, so he may actually
> have fixes for the issues that I saw. I haven't been in contact with
> him for some time, however, so I don't know the state of things in his
> neck of the woods.

Let's see if he speaks up. He is around here..

> As you may know, I'm out of the Squid business for the foreseeable, so I
> won't be doing anything else with the code. But I do hope it sees some
> real world use.

Sad to hear that. Myself is back in more Squid focused business again,
if it wasn't for the fact that I am a bit short on time at the moment..

Regards
Henrik