Re: [xml] Suddenly all xmlTextWriterWrite*, xmlTextWriterStart* return rc < 0 ?

[Stefan Behnel <stefan_ml behnel de>]

Franzen, Holger wrote:
> on the weekend i encountered a strange behaviour of libxml. Using the
> xmlTextWriter interface on an xmlNewTextWriterDoc instance every write
> method suddenly started to fail until i restarted the process. The
> application run without problems for several weeks and was under a lot
> of traffic. The writer is used for creating xhtml files. Each request
> has its own writer but all of these shared the behavior?
>
> The runnig os is SuSE 10.0.
>
> # xml2-config --version
> 2.6.20
>
> # uname -a
> Linux mo1.mo-market.de 2.6.9-023stab044.4-enterprise #1 SMP Thu May 24
> 17:41:23 MSD 2007 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
>
> Did somebody else encounter this behavior and what causes it?

Sounds like a memory leak to me. Check if the process constantly grows in
memory consumption until the OS stops giving it any more memory.

Stefan