Sorry for those of you that are reading this for the 2nd time, but I felt I should sent it to modssl and openssl lists to see if I can get any help. I've got some strange problems with the following setup: Solaris 7 apache 1.3.12 apache Jserv 1.1 mod_ssl 2.6.3-1.3.12 openssl-0.9.5a (just upgraded today from 0.9.5, but it didn't fix the problem described below) I have searched the message archives, but I didn't see anything there, so no flames please if I missed an answer to this. Occasionally, when users connect to one of the httpd daemons (on 443), the daemon goes nuts and allocates almost ALL of my available physical ram and swap space. It takes about 90 seconds to allocate the ram, during which time the machine will not respond to anything (ie. more web requests, login on console, etc). Once this httpd request has allocated approximately 550 megs of ram, the system becomes usable again, but obviously runs slower. If I kill the bad httpd, the whole process will eventually repeat itself. Sometimes it happens again in 2 minutes, sometimes not for a day or two. In the SSL_ENGINE_LOG logfile, the only errors I see for this httpd daemon are: [25/Apr/2000 18:10:21 25349] [error] SSL handshake failed (server server.address.was.here:443, client xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx) (OpenSSL library error follows) [25/Apr/2000 18:10:21 25349] [error] OpenSSL: error:0D06B078:asn1 encoding routines:ASN1_get_object:header too long [25/Apr/2000 18:10:21 25349] [error] OpenSSL: error:0D080065:asn1 encoding routines:d2i_ASN1_INTEGER:bad object header [25/Apr/2000 18:10:21 25349] [error] OpenSSL: error:0D067004:asn1 encoding routines:ASN1_COLLATE_PRIMITIVE:nested asn1 error Then about 10 seconds later: [25/Apr/2000 18:10:29 25349] [info] Spurious SSL handshake interrupt[Hint: Usually just one of those OpenSSL confusions!?] I would appreciate ANY help anyone can offer as this is currently crashing an important production server on a regular basis. Thanks for your help. Chris Smith Programmer ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]