[Pkg-icecast-devel] Bug#566210: Bug#566210: icecast2: Memory leak eats up all memory until OOM

[Romain Beauxis]

fixed 566210 2.3.2-5
kthanksbye

	Hi !

Le jeudi 21 janvier 2010 18:33:12, Harald Oest a écrit :
> We are using icecast2 as an on-demand streaming server offering about 120
>  different mp3 streams. Streams are changing very frequently. Ices is used
>  as streaming source client. Additionally apache2 and mysql5-server are
>  installed and running, providing a HTTP based API to request on-demand
>  streams.
> 
> Hardware: Intel i7 CPU, 4 phys + 4 virt cores, 8 GB RAM + 4 GB swap
> 
> After some hours in production the server became unresponsive for several
>  minutes, showing a system load of about 100. All memory including the
>  whole swap space was in use.

Yes, this bug is fixed in 2.3.2-5. I do not think it would deserve a security 
update, though.

We should prepare a backport of the fixed package soon...


Romain