On Wed, 8 Nov 2006, Gisle Vanem wrote:

(I moved this over to the libcurl list)

>> I say in libssh2, but I'm not sure. It could also be a bug in the libcurl
>> <=> libssh2 integration that causes this. Can you try digging a little
>> deeper?
>
> I'll take a look when I have the time (at the weekend?).

Ouch. I have a very interesting way to max out the memory usage beyond unreal:

  curl scp://localhost:80/helllo

With an ordinary apache http server running on port 80,
libssh2_session_startup() gets stuck and initially it spent a lot of CPU but
primarily it ate some 800MB of ram before I could break it... (and I believe
it will eat even more if I allow it to).

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