Re: [squid-users] Re: Maximum Resident Size

From: M A Young <m.a.young_at_durham.ac.uk>
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2013 09:27:21 +0000 (GMT)

On Tue, 15 Jan 2013, Amos Jeffries wrote:

> On 14/01/2013 12:10 p.m., M A Young wrote:
>> It is probably a memory leak. Squid's memory management fools C++'s
>> automatic memory clean up so it is prone to leaks if objects aren't
>> explicitly cleaned. I know of one still unfixed in 3.2 which was in 3.1 as
>> well, and there could easily be others.
> Michael: can you point me at that one please? We have just about finished
> another round of purging memory leaks and other types of leaks in 3.2 and
> 3.3.

It is bug 3567 - squid leaks httprequests if presented with a request with
NULL characters in the headers or an invalid HTTP version. It requires bad
requests from the client, but unfortunately we seem to have a badly
behaved app some people use here.

         Michael Young
Received on Tue Jan 15 2013 - 09:28:00 MST

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