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Re: Ldirectord - unexpected crashes

To: "LinuxVirtualServer.org users mailing list." <lvs-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Ldirectord - unexpected crashes
From: Volker Dormeyer <volker@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 21:07:19 +0100
 * On Mon, 13 Nov 2006 10:41:29 +0900,
 * Horms <horms@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

 > On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 07:30:20PM +0100, Roberto Nibali wrote:
 >> >Just migrated another customer environment from some older
 >> >Ldirectord 1.77.2.6 to a more recent version 1.77.2.45.

 > There have been a number of updates since 1.77.2.45. 

 > Could you please try 1.186, which is available at
 > http://www.vergenet.net/linux/ldirectord/download/ldirectord.1.186

Thanks, I am going to use this version. I will let you know, then.

 > I have also put an updated explanation
 > of how to get the latest ldirectord (which is 1.186 today),
 > at http://www.vergenet.net/linux/ldirectord/download.shtml

 >> I cannot provide you with an answer because I'm don't know enough about 
 >> ldirectord. What I'm wondering is, why it was changed, when the old code 
 >> worked 
 >> (don't tell me because forking was too heavy)? Also why wasn't something 
 >> like 
 >> the libcurl used for this? I'm not a seasoned perl-monger, so this could be 
 >> an 
 >> extremely stupid question.

 > The code was changed because the SSL library that is used seems to have
 > a memory leak in it somewhere. I have never been able to find it. But by
 > having a short-lived child process the effects of the leak are negated

Yes, and the newer LWP based code is able to follow HTTP redirects of
the checked real servers.

Regards,
Volker

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