innfeed bloats and explode

[Russ Allbery]

Alex Kiernan <alexk at demon.net> writes:
> "Marco d'Itri" <md at Linux.IT> writes:

>> It's 25 and peers*25*1MB does not account for 1.3 GB.

> I /think/ from a quick read of the source max-queue-size is
> per-connection, so you have peers * max-queue-size * max-connections *
> max-article-size

Yup.

I've seen people report this from time to time.  I shunt binaries to a
separate innfeed and throttle its max-queue-size and I've never seen this
problem.  This makes me think that's the underlying cause (although of
course I can't rule out a memory leak in innfeed itself).

Should we lower the default max-queue-size on the grounds of choosing
safety over some speed?

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