Memory usage pattern in openssl - limiting number connections in connections pool

[Harish Kulkarni <harishvk27@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello All,

Happy new year and Wish you all the best in 2021.

I am doing a browser memory leak investigation.. as part of the investigation, we are using heaptrack and our observation is top-most memory allocation happens in openssl with following memory allocation back-trace.

From my investigation.. it seems like this is not a memory leak as such but the way openssl allocates memory.. for each connection it looks like once the memory assigned ( like storage certificate ) is not freed.. I am not sure how this works if you point me to some document explaining memory usage within openssl could be great help.

My second question is.. is there a way i can limit this connection-pool in openssl?. For embedded systems we will not have lot of memory so we need to reduce our memory allocation, and if we can reduce number fo connections memory is allocated for may be i have an answer to my question. 

CRYPTO_malloc
asn1_enc_save
asn1_item_ex_d2i
asn1_template_noexp_d2i
asn1_template_ex_d2i
asn1_item_ex_d2i
ASN1_item_ex_d2i
ASN1_item_d2i
ASN1_item_dup

-thanks

harish