Shibboleth Developers

[Philip Brusten <>]

Scott Cantor wrote:
> Barring any unforeseen bugs I didn't catch, this is the new XML platform for
> Shibboleth 2.0 and the 1.3.1 update. I would encourage any future deployers
> building from source to use this version. I will have RPMs for it, but I
> can't really get all the older Shibboleth packages rebuilt with it yet, so
> that will wait a bit. We'll get an SRPM up at least so people could rebuild
> against it.
> 
> Any downstream packagers should build on this release going forward.
> 
> I also believe we've fixed the RPM collision that caused Ian and I to work
> on the version specific packaging. The actual RPM should co-habitate with
> any alternate Xerces RPM, only the -devel package should conflict now. I'll
> undo all that xercesver logic in my packages eventually.
> 
> Memory-wise, this release allocates about 16k per document (and therefore
> about 16k minimum per cached SAML response per session). My private copies
> were 8k, but this should be workable for now. (Vanilla 2.7.0 was 64k per
> document.)

Will this solve the exponential memory usage on Linux platforms? We have 
several webservers that are now using over 1GB of memory. We are forced to
restart the shibboleth daemon every once in a while.
Will these 16k be released after an expiration of some kind?

Philip


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