From owner-freebsd-current Thu Aug 6 09:40:21 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA03834 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 6 Aug 1998 09:40:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from itesec.hsc.fr (itesec.hsc.fr [192.70.106.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA03695 for ; Thu, 6 Aug 1998 09:39:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pb@hsc.fr) Received: from mars.hsc.fr (mars.hsc.fr [192.70.106.44]) by itesec.hsc.fr (8.8.8/8.8.5/itesec-1.12-nospam) with ESMTP id SAA20130; Thu, 6 Aug 1998 18:39:32 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from pb@localhost) by mars.hsc.fr (8.8.8/8.8.8/pb-19980526) id SAA05292; Thu, 6 Aug 1998 18:39:31 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from pb) Message-ID: <19980806183931.A5235@mars.hsc.fr> Date: Thu, 6 Aug 1998 18:39:31 +0200 From: Pierre Beyssac To: Dusk Auriel Sykotik , Bruce Evans Cc: dg@root.com, narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd@xaa.iae.nl Subject: Re: memory leaks in libc References: <199808061335.XAA23389@godzilla.zeta.org.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.92.8i In-Reply-To: ; from Dusk Auriel Sykotik on Thu, Aug 06, 1998 at 12:07:04PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Aug 06, 1998 at 12:07:04PM -0400, Dusk Auriel Sykotik wrote: > Apache uses them quite frequently. And this could make it very costly on > large webservers. Where I work, we have hundreds of connections to some Apparently, from a very quick glance at Apache code, it looks like Apache handles environment stuff by itself (without setenv) before handling it to external programs. > of our webservers per minute. We also use cgi scripts very frequently, > and these use *env* functions quite frequently as well. cgi scripts are short lived, so memory leaks here are short lived too and much less of a problem. -- Pierre.Beyssac@hsc.fr To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message