plackup failures under https

choroba has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I'm running two versions of my site at e-choroba.eu: there are two plackup processes, one runs the bare plackup, while the second one runs

plackup --enable-ssl --ssl-key-file=domain.key --ssl-cert-file=domain.
+crt app.psgi &> https-log
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The problem is the plackup that servers https is quite unstable. I often find the https version not responding, and when I log to the server, I discover one of the two following situations:

The ssl plackup is down; the log file contains "Out of memory!" as the last line. I don't have much memory on the server, but normally, the process doesn't take more than 2% of the available memory.
The ssl plackup is running, but when I do
```
strace -fp <ssl-plackup-pid>
[download]
```
I only see
```
read(5,
[download]
```
while normally, when everything works, it shows
```
accept(4,
[download]
```

Any ideas what's wrong?

map{substr$_->[0],$_->[1]||0,1}[\*||{},3],[[]],[ref qr-1,-,-1],[{}],[sub{}^*ARGV,3]

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Re: plackup failures under https by kikuchiyo (Hermit) on Sep 21, 2020 at 00:03 UTC
Net::SSLeay might be the culprit: at $work we've found that earlier versions leak memory, basically every SSL connection to the service increased memory consumption by a few kBs. Since we've upgraded to the latest version of the module, the memory leak disappeared. By the way, you should consider installing some kind of monitoring for your servers, that's how we've noticed the issue before it caused any trouble.	[reply]
Re^2: plackup failures under https by choroba (Cardinal) on Sep 21, 2020 at 08:34 UTC
Thank you. I had 1.81 installed, trying now with 1.88. `map{substr$_->[0],$_->[1]\|\|0,1}[\\|\|{},3],[[]],[ref qr-1,-,-1],[{}],[sub{}^ARGV,3]`	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: plackup failures under https by nikosv (Deacon) on Nov 04, 2020 at 11:59 UTC
which monitoring system do you suggest?	[reply]
Re^3: plackup failures under https by kikuchiyo (Hermit) on Nov 20, 2020 at 22:10 UTC
Sorry, I haven't noticed your post. We used munin when the memory leak issue I've mentioned was found. It has a plugin to show the memory consumption of docker containers, which was useful to find which of our dockerised services was the culprit for the leak. More recently our sysadmins have moved on to Prometheus/Grafana, the justification being that munin uses a lot of resources on the hosts.	[reply]

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