Issue #4672 has been updated by Hiroshi NAKAMURA. Status changed from Open to Assigned Assignee changed from Hiroshi NAKAMURA to Martin Bosslet Excellent result. It looks like a gift from Tor project. There's no reason I can imagine not to apply this. Please apply this. I think it's OK to commit this w/o writing a test. :) ---------------------------------------- Feature #4672: [PATCH] openssl: enable SSL_MODE_RELEASE_BUFFERS if available http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/4672 Author: Eric Wong Status: Assigned Priority: Low Assignee: Martin Bosslet Category: ext Target version: 1.9.x Available in OpenSSL 1.0.0a and later, this can save up to 34KB per idle connection. Using the test script below run with the time(1) command on 64-bit Linux (needs /proc/$PID/status to grab VmRSS:) before ------ conn_clients: 500 srv_clients: 500 VmRSS: 65428 kB 19.18user 1.86system 0:20.72elapsed 101%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 263952maxresident 0inputs+0outputs (0major+56932minor)pagefaults 0swaps after ----- conn_clients: 500 srv_clients: 500 VmRSS: 19228 kB 19.41user 1.53system 0:20.64elapsed 101%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 77424maxresident) 0inputs+0outputs (0major+20845minor)pagefaults 0swaps (test script attached) You can also pull my change via git: git clone git://bogomips.org/ruby.git ssl-memory -- http://redmine.ruby-lang.org