On Wed, 10 Dec 2003, Stas Bekman wrote: > Chris is trying to filter a 650MB file coming in through a proxy. Obviously he > sees that httpd-2.0 is allocating > 650MB of memory, since each bucket will > use the request's pool memory and won't free it untill after the request is > over.
Whoa. Obviously? It is NOT supposed to do that. Buckets do not use pool memory for that very reason (well, that's one of the two or three big reasons). > could theoretically reuse that memory for the next brigade. Which is exactly what is supposed to happen. > Obviously it's not how things work at the moment, as the memory is never > freed (which could probably be dealt with), but the real problem is that > no data will leave the server out before it was completely read in. Yes, that would be the real problem. So somewhere there is a filter (or maybe the proxy itself) buffering the entire data stream before sending it. That is a bug. --Cliff
