----- Original Message ----
> From: Joe Schaefer <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Sent: Mon, February 15, 2010 3:45:58 AM
> Subject: Re: unsupported compression issue seen in 2.3.5-alpha
>
> ----- Original Message ----
>
> > From: Stefan Fritsch
> > To: [email protected]
> > Sent: Sun, February 14, 2010 2:53:12 PM
> > Subject: Re: unsupported compression issue seen in 2.3.5-alpha
>
> [...]
>
> > Apart from that, in the error case 'unable to init Zlib', mod_deflate
> > passes uncompressed content down the filter chain after having
> > modified the headers. But this would result in entries in the error
> > log.
>
> There are tons of those messages in the error log on aurora (the www host
> for apache.org):
>
> ... unable to init Zlib: deflateInit2 returned -4 ...
>
> The most recent patch to mod_deflate therefore looks promising as far
> as the ASF's servers go.
-4 is Z_MEM_ERROR: we're running out of swap on aurora because mirrors.cgi
doesn't seem to wanna die (the CGI's just accumulate in the process table).
Running alphas in production is such fun!