On Fri, 30 Jan 2009, Patrick Scott wrote:

Please note that this is highly libcurl-specific questions and thus
curl-library is rather the proper mailing list for this topic... That's where
the other libcurl hackers hang out.

> If I set the MAXCONNECTS option on a multi handle, what happens to the
> extra connections that don't fit in the cache?

They're just temporarily held outside of the cache while used, and then closed
after the transfer is done since it doesn't fit the cache.

> I've turned on logging to see things like "Connection #-1 left intact" but
> where do those connections go?

Unfortunately, those connection numbers in the verbose logs aren't fully
consistent so their exact meaning isn't always easily conveyed like that...

> Turning on leak checking appears to show those connections as leaks but
> valgrind did not complain so I'm not sure who is correct. BTW, I'm using
> libcurl 7.19.2 if that helps.

I'm not aware of any such leaks in 7.19.2. And if valgrind doesn't yell, I
doubt it truly is a leak... How exactly do you determine that? What's the
"leak checking" you used?

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  / daniel.haxx.se
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