On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 10:02:21AM -0400, Marc Heckmann wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 02:46:58PM +0100, Joe Orton wrote:
> > 
> > Thanks for testing this out Marc: unfortunately these patches break
> > assumptions that various filters are making; applying them alone is
> > likely to cause lots of random module segfaults. It's yet to be decided
> > whether the patch is wrong or the modules are wrong...
> > 
> > Do you know what "WinGet" does that's special, lots of ranged GET
> > requests?
> 
> yes I believe that is what it does. It basically hammers the httpd
> with dozens of simultaneous requests to download a file in many
> pieces. I'll see what I can do about reproducing this later on today.

Ah, I think you're seeing a different and less subtle problem here: the
byterange filter in 2.0 will suck the entire CGI script output into
memory too. :(

joe

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