Author: Sorin Mustaca

Sorin Mustaca, (ISC)2 CSSLP, CompTIA Security+ and Project+, is working since over 20 years in the IT Security industry and worked between 2003-2014 for Avira as Product Manager for the known products used by over 100 million users world-wide. Today he is CEO and owner of Endpoint Cybersecurity GmbH focusing on Cybersecurity, secure software development and security for IoT and Automotive. He is also running his personal blog Sorin Mustaca on Cybersecurity and is the author of the free eBook Improve your security .
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About the APR’s Memory pools which seem to cause memory leaks

Resources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Portable_Runtime http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_pool http://dev.ariel-networks.com/apr/apr-tutorial/html/apr-tutorial-3.html http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.1/ch08s05.html The APR pools are some big tables which contain references to consecutive memory areas which are used by the application. Once the application releases such an area, the pool marks the memory area as available, but it doesn’t give it back to the OS. Let’s take an example which better […]