[zorp] Zorp 2.1.5.5 can't handle load

[Balazs Scheidler]

2004-05-22, szo keltezéssel 18:20-kor Sheldon Hearn ezt írta:
> On Sat, 2004-05-22 at 00:11, Balazs Scheidler wrote:
> > > > So the above fix should solve your SIGSEGV issue with HTTP, I will
> > > > explain your possibilities with load in the next mail.
> > > 
> > > I see only 2.1.7 available for download at
> > > http://www.balabit.com/downloads/zorp/2.1/src/, and it does not fix the
> > > SIGSEGV issue with HTTP.
> > > 
> > This is the patch that was incorporated in 2.1.7.1, but the GPL version
> > has not been released yet.
> > Index: zorp-core/lib/proxyvars.c
> > diff -u [...] zorp-core/lib/proxyvars.c:1.10.2.2
> [...]
> 
> That patch doesn't stop Zorp's HTTP proxy dying under load, still with a
> sig 11.  The Plug proxy doesn't exhibit this behaviour.
> 
> I'm going to try downgrading to 2.0.9, which also claims to have fixed
> this bug.
> 
> Failing that, I give up.  I should probably cut my time losses and write
> a URL filtering patch for FK's HTTP proxy and use that instead.  This
> has been a disappointing experience, but I only have myself to blame for
> putting untested software into production.

Sorry to hear that. We have successfully deployed Zorp in an environment
similar to yours, however we are running it on our Debian based OS.

Could you please post the segmentation fault dump (at least in a private
mail)? I'd really like to have a look.

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Bazsi
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