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Hello,

I was trying to use the PionWebServer utility, I basically modified one of the examples to return an XML. If I hit the service through the browser I get results quickly and there is no load on the server, I put more load on the server by hitting it from other machines through curl. The server responds to all the curl requests but it continues to consume 299% cpu even after all the curl processes have finished. (see output of 'top' below).

30172 root 15 0 344m 95m 2720 S 299.5 0.3 6634:33 PionWebServer

I ran a strace on this pid and I see that the sockets were still getting recvmsg calls and that the request contained some junk data, see below.

strace -p 30172 -f -e trace=recvmsg,sendmsg -o strace.out

snippet from strace.out.

30172 recvmsg(13, {msg_name(0)=NULL, msg_iov(1)=[{"test89test89test10"..., 8192}], msg_controllen=0, msg_flags=0}, 0) = 0
30172 recvmsg(15, {msg_name(0)=NULL, msg_iov(1)=[{"test89test89test89