Lighttpd

I am running Fresh Ubuntu Linux 8.04 install with the packaged lighttpd version and torrentflux_2.3.tar.gz. I am not 100% sure if I am using fastcgi or normal cgi since both are enabled. I suspect normal CGI ( let me know the easy way to tell if it's important).

Noticed a memory problem on the box after I used the "download as a zip" function in torrentflux. Memory usage of lighttpd increases by roughly the size of the file and doesn't decrease afterwards. Further downloads keep increasing file size.

To duplicate:

Install Ubuntu Server 8.04
Install Torrentflux version above ( using mysql backend but probably important)

Config bits:

server.modules = (
"mod_access",
"mod_alias",
"mod_accesslog",
"mod_compress",
"mod_rewrite",
"mod_redirect",

1. "mod_status",
2. "mod_evhost",
3. "mod_usertrack",
4. "mod_rrdtool",
5. "mod_webdav",
6. "mod_expire",
7. "mod_flv_streaming",
8. "mod_evasive"
   )

1. .php, .pl, .fcgi are most often handled by mod_fastcgi or mod_cgi
   static-file.exclude-extensions = ( ".php", ".pl", ".fcgi" , ".cgi" )

1. compress module
   compress.cache-dir = "/var/cache/lighttpd/compress/"
   compress.filetype = ("text/plain", "text/html", "application/x-javascript", "text/css")

Modules:

cgi, fastcgi , simple-vhost

In torrentflux:

- Add a user (just the initual one will do)
- Using you shell account create a directory with some largish (megabytes) files in it in the users download directory ( _/www//torrentflux/downloads/ )
- Navigate to users home directory in torrentflux
- Use the yellow "download as zip" button in torrentflux on this directory

Watch memory usage as file downloads and afterwards.

I grabbed strace and valgrind memleaks stuff. I'll emailURLs for these to Jan

-- Simon Lyall