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  1. Bug #224945
  2. Comment #4

Comment 4 for bug 224945

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Dustin Kirkland  (kirkland) wrote : Re: memory leaks in apache2 when running mod_ssl

I've reproduced this in a Hardy VM with 128MB of memory.

Beyond the default server install, I installed:
apache2-mpm-worker ssl-cert

I enabled ssl with a2enmod.

I created a very simple ssl config for apache and enabled it with a2ensite.

Then, from the VM host, I ran:
time ab -n 100000 -c 20 -f tls1 https://192.168.122.74:443/

It locked up the VM. I could see apache2 consuming all virtual memory, and the load pegged at 20.87.

Interestingly, I couldn't shutdown or ctrl-alt-delete the VM to gracefully reset it to a sane state.

:-Dustin