Hi, Past week was intriguing. Last week-end I spent time digging into the source of LibNSS to find memory leaks that were report by Valgrind(1) with the caching server of feedmug.com. Valgrind(1) produces the call stack and shows precisely where…
Hi, Past week was intriguing. Last week-end I spent time digging into the source of LibNSS to find memory leaks that were report by Valgrind(1) with the caching server of feedmug.com. Valgrind(1) produces the call stack and shows precisely where…
Four months ago, I mentioned here that feedmug.com was facing problems because the backend caching service was stopped citing excessive resource usage. This service, which was written in Perl, would start consuming 24MB of memory instantly upon invocation. This would…