[Bug 1655153] Re: long-running stunnel leaks memory

[scotte]

A couple of additional comments:

To make testing easy, feel free to try this PPA with the patch:
https://launchpad.net/~lscotte/+archive/ubuntu/stunnel4/

Also, I discovered that this bug is present in the version provided in
jessie-backports, so I've also opened this bug in upstream Jessie:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=864391

** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #864391
   http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=864391

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Title:
  long-running stunnel leaks memory

Status in stunnel4 package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  We are running a long-running stunnel4 daemon to proxy TLS connections
  to another set of servers. After leaving it running for a few weeks,
  its memory usage had grown to 1.5GB. Restarting it reduced its memory
  usage to expected levels (VSZ and RSS) but while I've been watching it
  today it has grown by more than 10MB.

  The stunnel website indicates that there have been fixes relating to
  memory leaks in versions 5.32 and 5.33, but Ubuntu LTS is still
  running 5.30.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
  Package: stunnel4 3:5.30-1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-45.66-generic 4.4.21
  Uname: Linux 4.4.0-45-generic i686
  ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.4
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Mon Jan  9 16:03:37 2017
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-10-31 (435 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Server 15.10 "Wily Werewolf" - Release i386 (20151021)
  ProcEnviron:
   TERM=xterm
   SHELL=/bin/bash
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
  SourcePackage: stunnel4
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to xenial on 2016-05-18 (236 days ago)
  mtime.conffile..etc.default.stunnel4: 2016-10-26T22:22:28.166247

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