On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 02:28:47AM +0000, Zhao, Fei wrote:
> This is Fei from EchoStar. We are tring to use libcurl in our low-end setbox which has memory limitation.
>
> It seems curl_easy_init() will allocate a lot of memory and the memmory can't be released after curl_easy_cleanup().
>
> If I call curl_easy_init() to initialize curl handles in 5 threads, the memory usage by curl will be 3 MB which is too much for the low-end setbox.
>
> What I need from curl is just the HTTP protocol.
> Is there any way or any configuration which I can use to reduce the memory usage by curl?

There's a section in docs/INSTALL about reducing the binary size. You can make
an HTTP-only libcurl that's 114 KiB, for example. There's not a lot you can do
to reduce the dynamic data requirements, but then libcurl doesn't use a lot,
either. You can reduce CURL_MAX_WRITE_SIZE, but that will save on the order of
KB, not MB.

> I tried to disable SSL. It seems don't work.

Then you did it wrong!

>>> Dan
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