[stunnel-users] stunnel 4.14 died silently under traffic stress test

Mon Mar 13 04:30:55 CET 2006

Hi, Michal

The gateway is running an embedded system, no harddisk is available, so 
it is not possible to add more RAM or swap.

I think it should be caused by some un-tested/un-catched memory 
allocation failure somewhere in the source code. is there any debug tool 
can help for this issue? i tried valgrind, but valgrind was killed by 
the kernel before stunnel for out of memory.

Michal Trojnara wrote:
> Zhuang Yuyao wrote:
>> The gateway machine running stunnel DO NOT have swap! so the 
>> available memory is limited to its physical memory = 64M.
> 
> That was important!  I've added a line to:
> http://stunnel.mirt.net/perf.html
> about memory usage.
> 
> In your case I'd try:
>   ulimit - n 100
> to stop stunnel from openning more than about 50 connections.
> 
>> Gateway hardware:
>> 80386 compatible cpu (VIA C3 400Mhz);
>> RAM: 64M
> 
> What about adding some RAM or swap?
> It's not really expensive...
> 
> Best regards,
>     Mike
> 
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