Which patch? I think you are missing a digit.

On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 5:57 PM, Eric Covener <cove...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am hoping this is fixed by
> http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=182481 which I
> stumbled onto from another direction.
>
> On Thu, Aug 3, 2017 at 5:58 AM, Stefan Sperling <s...@apache.org> wrote:
>> There are numerous reports of Apache HTTPD looping forever on Windows
>> unless the LDAPSharedCacheSize option is set to zero.
>>
>> See for instance:
>> https://svn.haxx.se/users/archive-2014-05/0000.shtml
>> https://subversion.open.collab.net/ds/viewMessage.do?dsMessageId=564176&dsForumId=3
>> https://subversion.open.collab.net/ds/viewMessage.do?dsForumId=3&viewType=browseAll&dsMessageId=539507
>> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44542654/collabnet-subversion-server-reaching-cpu-100-because-of-httpd-exe-process
>>
>> I looked around for a while but don't know yet if a corresponding issue
>> in the HTTPD bug tracker exists. Does anyone know?
>>
>> On the surface it looks like a memory pool corruption bug to me.
>> The stack trace posted in 
>> https://svn.haxx.se/users/archive-2014-05/0000.shtml
>> points towards an endless loop in apr_pool_cleanup_kill().
>> The trace ends at APR-util's 
>> misc/apr_reslist.c:apr_reslist_cleanup_order_set,
>> and of the functions this calls only apr_pool_cleanup_kill() contains loops.
>>
>> I could not do any further debugging since I only had a production setup
>> to look at, which is stable with the workaround 'LDAPSharedCacheSize 0'.
>> I also do not have a Windows dev environment and I don't plan on digging
>> any further.
>>
>> Until the real bug gets found and fixed, I would recommend making the
>> known workaround the default on Windows. Because the winnt MPM runs a
>> single process, there is no benefit to a shared memory cache anyway.
>>
>> Should I commit this patch?
>>
>> Index: modules/ldap/util_ldap.c
>> ===================================================================
>> --- modules/ldap/util_ldap.c    (revision 1803972)
>> +++ modules/ldap/util_ldap.c    (working copy)
>> @@ -2815,7 +2815,17 @@ static void *util_ldap_create_config(apr_pool_t *p
>>      apr_thread_mutex_create(&st->mutex, APR_THREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT, st->pool);
>>  #endif
>>
>> +#ifdef WIN32
>> +    /* XXX The shared memory cache can cause an endless loop on Windows.
>> +     * See https://svn.haxx.se/users/archive-2014-05/0000.shtml and
>> +     * similar reports elsewhere which recommend 'LDAPSharedCacheSize 0'
>> +     * as a workaround.
>> +     * Because the winnt MPM uses a single process a shared cache is
>> +     * not needed anyway so leave it disabled by default. */
>> +    st->cache_bytes = 0;
>> +#else
>>      st->cache_bytes = 500000;
>> +#endif
>>      st->search_cache_ttl = 600000000;
>>      st->search_cache_size = 1024;
>>      st->compare_cache_ttl = 600000000;
>
>
>
> --
> Eric Covener
> cove...@gmail.com

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