On Wed, 18 Apr 2007, Robert Iakobashvili wrote:

>> I would rather recommend you using CURLOPT_ERRORBUFFER instead, as it would
>> then also reduce the amount of *printf()s etc within libcurl.
>
> Thank you for your advise. Indeed, this is a valid option.
>
> Still, we need libcurl verbose debugging option at least for the detailed
> statistics and counters, that we are generating, and even more fore future.

Right, but then you'll sacrifize transfer performance to some degree.

> To the best of my knowledge CURLOPT_ERRORBUFFER requires a buffer per
> CURL-handle of size 256 bytes. Planning dealing with tens and hundreds
> thousand of virtual clients - this is the memory worth to save.

That's a valid remark but you instead get a slower operation. A trade-off of
course. But you're probably already using around 60-80K per client, so adding
256 bytes to that should make a very big difference...

I don't like the debug callback being used for that purpose so I'm not very
keen at applying that patch to the main sources.

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