On Fri, 07 Jan 2011 14:26:35 +0100 Nick Gearls <nickgea...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello, > > I saw servers completely freezing (the whole system, not only httpd) due > to a memory leak problem in mod_substitute. > This is a major issue as it can completely block your systems, sometimes > even the fail-over as the server is blocked, but not completely down. > Even the management interfaces are blocked. > We reported the problem > (https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=50559), with a > (scaled-down) reproducible process to trigger it. > > Did somebody already begin to work on mod_substitute memory management? The obvious question would be whether the "q" flag affects your observations. But the detailed bug report suggests that's unlikely. So the second obvious question: have you tried equivalent observations with mod_sed and/or mod_line_edit? -- Nick Kew