Shibboleth Developers

[Russ Allbery <>]

"Scott Cantor" 
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 writes:

>>> 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?

>> Yes, this is fixed in Xerces-C++ 2.8.0.

> That would be nice, but is that true? I don't know of any growth issues
> from Xerces, just "too much memory per document". If you free the
> document, which the cache does, it should free the memory. But whether
> it goes back to the OS is a runtime lib issue, obviously.

Ah, sorry.  I may be confusing two different memory handling issues and
must have missed your original message.

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Russ Allbery 
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