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Re: Strange very long time in curl_multi_cleanup() after an SSL request

From: Rainer Canavan via curl-library <curl-library_at_lists.haxx.se>
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2023 15:03:12 +0100

On Thu, 9 Nov 2023, Frédéric BOITEUX via curl-library wrote:

> I'm using libcurl in a C program to perform various web operations. I'm
> using the 'multi' interface to be able to run multiple concurrent requests,
> in an asynchronous manner. I'm working on Linux Debian systems, and I
> recently tried to migrate my program from a Debian 11 to Debian 12 version,
> with libcurl updated from 7.74 to 7.88 version. With this 'new' version,
> I've experienced an unexpected behaviour: sometimes, when closing my app
> [and libcurl], the call to curl_multi_cleanup() takes a [very] long time,
> more than 5 minutes !! After some tests, I could reproduce it doing an
> HTTPS request, then terminating.


If you can, get a few gdb backtraces while curl_multi_cleanup() is
running, or possibly just start with strace, which is much easier, but
less likely to show anything helpful.

Rainer
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Received on 2023-11-13