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

Michal Trojnara Michal.Trojnara at mobi-com.net
Fri Mar 10 09:44:21 CET 2006


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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