This is a problem with OldSSLClientIn as well,here's a patch with both.

thanks,
Jacob

On Feb 6, 2008 5:29 PM, Jacob Burkhart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> There appears to me a minor memory leak in StartTLS, I observe a slow but
> steady climb in memory usage over the course of hundreds of client SSL
> connect/disconnects.  Which, I no longer observe when this patch is applied.
> from what I can gather from:
>
> http://search.cpan.org/~sampo/Net_SSLeay.pm-1.25/SSLeay.pm
>
>
> The $ctx created on line 22 of:
>
>
> http://code.sixapart.com/trac/djabberd/browser/trunk/DJabberd/lib/DJabberd/Stanza/StartTLS.pm
>
>
> needs to be freed with:
>
> Net::SSLeay::CTX_free ($ctx);
>
>
> The other thing going on in StartTLS, is that a new $ctx is being created
> for every SSL connection, which is not really needed.  It would be more
> efficient to create a single $ctx (never collect it) and reuse it.  Which is
> another way to eliminate the need to worry about Net::SSLeay::CTX_free, and
> thus fix this leak.
>
>
> So, I submit for your consideration a patch that makes $ctx an 'our'
> variable, sets it when first needed, and then reuses it for
> every Net::SSLeay::new
>
>
> thanks,
>
> Jacob
>
>

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