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Date:      Thu, 6 Aug 1998 18:39:31 +0200
From:      Pierre Beyssac <Pierre.Beyssac@hsc.fr>
To:        Dusk Auriel Sykotik <syko@sykotik.org>, Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Cc:        dg@root.com, narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd@xaa.iae.nl
Subject:   Re: memory leaks in libc
Message-ID:  <19980806183931.A5235@mars.hsc.fr>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.980806120525.8578C-100000@vortex.starix.net>; from Dusk Auriel Sykotik on Thu, Aug 06, 1998 at 12:07:04PM -0400
References:  <199808061335.XAA23389@godzilla.zeta.org.au> <Pine.LNX.3.95.980806120525.8578C-100000@vortex.starix.net>

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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

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