Shibboleth Developers

[André Cruz <>]

Aha! So I'm not the only one.

Could you elaborate on the library versions, distribution version, etc?

Thanks,
André

On 2007/10/10, at 11:04, Philip Brusten wrote:

> 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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