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Posted to dev@httpd.apache.org by Manoj Kasichainula <ma...@io.com> on 2000/02/07 20:42:10 UTC

Re: sendfile fun

On Wed, Jan 26, 2000 at 11:06:29AM -0500, Bill Stoddard wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, Bill Stoddard wrote:
> >
> > > The storage allocated out of sock->cntxt will not be freed until the
> socket
> > > is freed, which is non deterministic in the general case. Thus, it could
> > > give the appearance of leaking memory on persistent connections.
> >
> > Is this really a problem?
> In general, yes. In practice with Apache, I don't think so because Apache
> does not send large headers or trailers. This could change in the future.

And this is easy to fix with a subpool too.