From 5030a511b811a23bf58b2a78d9760ee4fce7ed38 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Fabian Keil <fk@fabiankeil.de>
Date: Sun, 22 May 2016 12:41:30 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Add FAQ entry for crashes caused by memory limits
---
doc/source/faq.sgml | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++--
1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/source/faq.sgml b/doc/source/faq.sgml
index 7d5bc721..7d63fadf 100644
--- a/doc/source/faq.sgml
+++ b/doc/source/faq.sgml
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
This file belongs into
ijbswa.sourceforge.net:/home/groups/i/ij/ijbswa/htdocs/
- $Id: faq.sgml,v 2.120 2016/04/09 10:23:54 fabiankeil Exp $
+ $Id: faq.sgml,v 2.121 2016/05/03 13:21:55 fabiankeil Exp $
Copyright (C) 2001-2014 Privoxy Developers https://www.privoxy.org/
See LICENSE.
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@
</subscript>
</pubdate>
-<pubdate>$Id: faq.sgml,v 2.120 2016/04/09 10:23:54 fabiankeil Exp $</pubdate>
+<pubdate>$Id: faq.sgml,v 2.121 2016/05/03 13:21:55 fabiankeil Exp $</pubdate>
<!--
@@ -2989,6 +2989,26 @@ browsing has slowed to a crawl. What gives? </title>
</para>
</sect2>
+<sect2 renderas="sect3" id="pcre-stack-limit">
+<title>After adding my custom filters, &my-app; crashes when visitting certain websites</title>
+<para>
+ This can happen if your custom filters require more memory than &my-app;
+ is allowed to use.
+ Usually the problem is that the operating system enforces a stack size limit
+ that isn't sufficient.
+</para>
+<para>
+ Unless the problem occurs with the filters available in the default configuration,
+ this is not considered a Privoxy bug.
+</para>
+<para>
+ To prevent the crashes you can rewrite your filter to use less ressources,
+ increase the relevant memory limit or recompile pcre to use less stack space.
+ For details please see the
+ <ulink url="http://pcre.org/original/doc/html/pcrestack.html">pcrestack man page</ulink>
+ and the documentation of your operating system.
+</para>
+
</sect1>
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