[Serusers] Stability 2.1

[Jiri Kuthan]

Martin Hoffmann wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> we have a bit of an issue with TCP handling in SER 2.0. It appears that
> dead connections cause the executing TCP process to hang for a short
> while until it figures things out. Too many such requests and processing
> essentially stops.
> 
> Now, I understand all of this has been fixed in SER 2.1 and all our
> problems will go away. Question is: Will we get new ones by upgrading.
> Or asked differently: Is there any experience with SER 2.1 and its
> statbility in a real world scenario? The boxes in question are edge
> proxies, so there is not much processing to be done other than basic
> forwarding and a bit of NAT handling. Can we risk it?

I think it is worth trying. We have been running it on iptel.org for 
quite a while. There has been one hard-to-reproduce mysql-lib crash and 
one hard-to-reproduce race-condition somewhere in TM (possibly on 2.0 
too). The key part, TCP, should indeed justify an upgrade in your case.

-jiri

> 
> Best regards,
> Martin
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