Bug#823409: proftpd RMemoryLimit large file transfer fails ( possible memory leak )

Sun Dec 18 21:58:04 UTC 2016

On 01.12.2016 14:09, Daniel Swarbrick wrote:

Hi Daniel,

Upstream asked to provide full configuration of proftp including
possible include file. Please be so kind.

> We are also seeing what appears to be a memory leak, which becomes quite
> a problem when users upload large files. We are _not_ using RMemoryLimit.
> 
> On one of our FTP servers, a user is currently uploading a large file,
> 430 GB so far, and the proftpd process has used almost 10 GB of memory.
> It seems to be concentrated in a single large allocation, according to pmap:
> 

-- 
http://www.hilmar-preusse.de.vu/   #206401 http://counter.li.org