On 2013-04-24 02:13, Michael Curran wrote:

We are running stunnel and noticed an issue with what ended up being an issue creating a new thread due to running out of memory at 2gb - error (8) on create_client

Are there any known issues with 4.53 around memory usage?

We only terminate 2 ports against the installation 443 on 2 different interfaces / IP addresses and we ran into this issue with just under 5000 total connections

What do you mean by "5000 total connections"? 5000 from opened and closed? 5000 concurrent?

I'm afraid 5000 concurrent connections may be about as many as 32-bit stunnel can handle on this platform. 64-bit build is on my TODO list, but it requires my time and money for a new compiler. This feature is currently not my top priority. Of course, as usual, a sponsor could change my priorities...
http://www.stunnel.org/sdf_todo.html

Another option to improve the memory management could be LFH:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa366750%28v=vs.85%29.aspx
I will try to enable it in stunnel 5.00.

Since 4.53 I have fixed memory management bugs in configuration file reload and protocol negotiations. You may try to upgrade stunnel if you use any of these features.
http://www.stunnel.org/sdf_ChangeLog.html

Mike