Memory leak in SP 3.0.2?

[Cantor, Scott]

On 9/24/18, 7:06 AM, "dev on behalf of Lukas Hämmerle" <dev-bounces at shibboleth.net on behalf of lukas.haemmerle at switch.ch> wrote:

> Also, when looking at memory graphs of the VM it seems that whenever we
> restart shibd memory usage considerably goes back only to increase
> again. We have seen this behaviour on two hosts.

Unix memory mgmt is inherently broken and is always going to do that to some degree; it simply won't free memory, ever. But it should usually reuse the older allocations so if it's really growing steadily that's probably a bug. I haven't run valgrind on it in a long while.

-- Scott