Fast session resumption memory leak?

Phil Mayers p.mayers at imperial.ac.uk
Thu Oct 13 15:40:06 CEST 2011


On 13/10/11 13:31, Alan DeKok wrote:
> Phil Mayers wrote:
>> All,
>>
>> We recently upgraded to 2.1.12 and I have at the same time enabled SSL
>> fast session resumption; in the last 6 days, FreeRADIUS on the server
>> that is currently handling most of our auth has consumed 27% of the RAM.
>>
>> Is anyone else running fast session resumption and seeing these
>> symptoms, or not?
>
>    No idea... maybe try changing "max_entries", or using valgrind?
>
>    If you have a Mac, xcode has all kinds of wonderful tools for tracking
> memory allocations in running processes.

valgrind is, so far, reporting nothing useful.

I am wondering if it's actually unrelated to fast session resumption; 
the CPU use has jumped alarmingly too, and doesn't drop back when I 
disable session resumption.

I might try downgrading and see if it goes away.



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