On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 12:27 PM, Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se> wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Dec 2012, Dotan Cohen wrote:
>
>> Under what circumstances will cURL print the following message:
>> * additional stuff not fine transfer.c:1037: 0 0
>
>
> That's a debug output I put there once to aid me debugging a transfer case I
> had problems with and I then left it there. If is only present in debug
> builds and basically if you need to ask about it, the message is not for
> you...
>

Good, thanks.

>> I have a Python application that access several remote servers. After
>> running fine for a few minutes, the application suddenly start using up all
>> the available CPU (doesn't touch the memory), the servers start timing out,
>> and the aforementioned error is printed tens of times. I consider that if I
>> know why the error is being printed, I might know why the CPUs are spiking
>> and the remote servers' responses are timing out.
>
>
> It just explains that the transfer is not deemed complete yet. You need to
> look at protocol and TCP details to see what's going on - but it sounds like
> you're experiencing some bug somewhere if it uses that much CPU.
>

Yes, and the bug is almost certainly associated with the same
condition that throws the message in question. I don't suspect that
the message is the cause of the bug, but another symptom of the same
bug and therefore a clue in tracking it down.

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