[Opendnssec-user] ods-signerd 1.4.0a1 running out of memory and crashing on null context

[Matthijs Mekking]

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Yes, I was focusing on the crashing on null context here. The large
memory required will be worked on too.

Best regards,
  Matthijs

On 06/21/2012 07:02 PM, Paul Wouters wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Jun 2012, Matthijs Mekking wrote:
> 
>> I have now implemented I think a reasonable strategy in trunk,
>> r6450. If this happens, the signer will fail the sign task, back
>> off the task and reload the engine. This will stop workers and
>> drudgers, reopen the connection to the HSM and start workers and
>> drudgers again. The next time, the backed off task runs (or
>> another task that is scheduled earlier), the drudgers try to
>> create a new context and do the sign jobs.
>> 
>> Let me know if you are satisfied with this approach.
> 
> If it avoids the crash I'm happy, though it still does not resolve
> our issue of the large amounts of RAM needed, but since that was
> happening for us on a test deployment without optout (and with less
> RAM) we won't be hitting this issue again, though other people
> might.
> 
> Paul

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