[Privoxy-devel] HTTPS inspection performance issue may delay the 3.0.34 release

[Fabian Keil]

Fabian Keil <fk at fabiankeil.de> wrote on 2023-01-05 at 17:07:23:

> Fabian Keil <fk at fabiankeil.de> wrote on 2022-12-31 at 15:04:15:
> 
> > Roland Rosenfeld <roland at spinnaker.de> wrote on 2022-12-30 at 14:53:34:
>  
> > > So if privoxy 3.0.34 is intended to be part of the Debian bookworm
> > > release, it should be released soon (I'd like to upload it before end
> > > of January).
> > > Alternatively I can cherry pick some patches from GIT and merge it
> > > into Debian 3.0.33 release but such an version may be confusing, since
> > > the source of Debian 3.0.33 package is different from upstream 3.0.33
> > > release...
> > 
> > I propose we release Privoxy 3.0.34 around 2023-01-15 in which
> > case I'll try to tag and upload the source tarball on 2023-01-08.
> 
> I may have to delay the tagging as I discovered an issue with
> HTTPS inspection but don't know yet if this is an old bug
> or a recent regression:
> 
> I'm using listadmin [0] for some Mailman-related admin tasks
> like discarding spam or approving mails.
> 
> Checking the status for 10 mailing lists with HTTPS inspection
> enabled takes around 24 minutes which seems unreasonable but
> I usually run listadmin in the background and thus may not have
> noticed it earlier.
> 
> With HTTPS inspection disabled the process only takes about
> a minute so it's more than twenty times faster.

It was a regression I introduced after 3.0.33 with 4610ab9d9
which I reverted in 18eeee66a8.

I probably will still delay the tagging to have time to think
about this some more.

Fabian
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