Bug#1126491: apache2: memory of apache2 thread increases by 200:1 proportional to https large file transfer => forwarded + more information

Greg <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.devel.apache
Message-ID <8394da14-71fe-4e5e-91dd-cc97d9e8d1f1__39894.0472559602$1786034735$gmane$org@abatis.uk>
On 06/08/2026 16:31, Bastien Roucaries wrote:
> Could you restest with
>   EnableMMAP Off

That fixes it, there is no memory increase with MMAP off.

Shortly after the original bug report, I ran an strace on the Apache 
process and saw occasional 8k mallocs, appeared to be one per transfer 
buffer. With no symbol names there was no good information on the call 
stack.
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