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class=569581600-27042005>Hi,</SPAN></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN
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class=569581600-27042005>I will appreciate greatly if you can diagnose the
following crash problem:</SPAN></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"><SPAN
class=569581600-27042005>I am using stunnel 4.05, working with webserver thttpd
to provide a https solution, in linux environment. First I wrote down some
noticeable behavior of stunnel.</SPAN></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"><SPAN
class=569581600-27042005>1) stunnel each time spawns a thread to handle the
https connection then destroy the thread. If I browse a lot of pages, then
internally a lot of thread ( or process) got created and
destroyed.</SPAN></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"><SPAN
class=569581600-27042005>2) Sometimes after a https request is completed, the
thread is still there. Only following request will trigger the thread got
destroyed. Normally if there is no activity, just 2 threads left.
</SPAN></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"><SPAN
class=569581600-27042005>The problem: During some stress testing, such as
multiple ( in my case, actually just 2 or 3) web browser simultaneously issues
request to the web server in https, I found out in certain moment stunnel
spawns more than 5 or 6 threads to handle the connections, sometimes it crashed
without giving out any serious debug error messages. When it crashed, system
resource of CPU and memory is still sufficient. Note than I already set
timeoutclose=0, that should be done.</SPAN></SPAN></P>
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