Hi Daniel,

Thanks for the details. We have a requirement that the app won't want to
get exited, but want to get the memory freed on need. Do we have any way to
handle this,?please share can we achieve this in any way?.

For libcurl related requests, I will speak in curl-library.

Thanks.

Regards,
Madan

On Fri, May 4, 2018 at 5:40 PM, Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se> wrote:

> On Fri, 4 May 2018, madana gopal wrote:
>
> We are using curl version 7.35 and 7.40 in our project and running in
>> linux. When we make https requests via *curl_easy_perform()* call, there is
>> a regular memory increase of process VIRT and RAM sections seen from top
>> command. Amount of memory increase is based on number of https requests
>> made. *curl_easy_cleanup() *call is made at the end of every request.
>>
>> Memory increase is not seen with http requests.
>>
>> Please let me know, do we have any issues related to this already and
>> there is some standard way to make curl calls for https requests.If there
>> is a known patch for this, please share the same. We may not want to
>> upgrade the curl package at this moment, but can apply the patch.
>>
>
> It is not surprising that HTTPS uses (much) more memory than plain HTTP.
> The added TLS layer requires a fair amount of memory.
>
> You're using fairly old versions of libcurl and we've fixed many bugs
> since then, but I can't recall any significant memory leak in any of those
> version that would make the memory use continue to grow unbounded. The
> memory use you see is most likely perfectly fine, expected and will all be
> freed when your application exits. You can of course use memory debugging
> tools such as valgrind to verify this if you want to.
>
> Finally: you seem to be using libcurl, so you might want to consider the
> curl-library mailing list if you want to dive into libcurl details.
>
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