Shibboleth SP v 3.2.2.2 crashes randomly on Windows

[Cantor, Scott]

On 7/2/21, 10:34 AM, "Kai Risku via users" <users at shibboleth.net> wrote:

>    - the crashes happens with both the isapi_shib.dll and the new IIS7 module -
>    to what extent do these two different approaches use the same code?

By actual lines of code it's probably 99%.

>    - why crash at random and irregular times even when there are no apparent
>    http requests being processed? It might crash twice within half an hour
>    (even in the middle of the night with no active users), and then work
>    normally for 6 hours straight.

A crash involving some sort of background cleanup or metadata refresh perhaps, but that wouldn’t be "new" in 3.2. No changes in any of that sort of area. The biggest change in 3.2 was a change to throw away non-working sockets instead of keeping them pooled but thereves been no reports of any problems with it.

I will say of course if you're not on MDQ and you're loading something like the InCommon or similar aggregate, you're doomed to fail eventually with memory issues, so there's that, but that's also not new or unique to any versions.

If you're relying on any compatibility code and still have any deprecation warnings I would advocate starting by getting rid of them, because that's not code that gets tested or receives any attention years after V2 was retired.

-- Scott