On Wed, 22 Dec 2010, Kevin Baughman wrote:

> I wrote a simple program to reproduce something I have been seeing. If I
> run the program and execute the loop a lot of times the memory usage spikes.
> I ran it under massif and after a while the memory usage was very large:

It would be interesting to see it compared to a run using another SSL library,
as from my reading it seems a lot of the memory is allocated by NSS there.

> The code to do this is below. Note that if I do not set FORBID_REUSE there
> seems to be no issue.

Isn't that ironic? If you keep less connections alive you use *more* memory?

Is this "normal" curl on Fedora, or did you build your own? Which version is
it? (The pem_* functions in the Massif output made me suspect the pem stuff
from the patch Fedora uses, but I did not do any analysing that got anywhere
near me actually casting blame on anyone.)

> Is there some kind of cleanup function or flag that I can set that will
> alleviate this? The FORBID_REUSE just illustrates the behavior I am seeing
> with the server that I need to communicate with. It causes me to always
> close the connection.

No, there's no additional option. FORBID_REUSE forces connections to close and
not be re-used and that should cleanup most things. The notable exception
would be the session-id caching, but a session-id is not a lot of data...

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