On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 10:37:45AM -0800, Phil Oester wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 04:49:18PM +0000, Russell King wrote:
> > so obviously the GC does appear to be working - as can be seen from the
> > number of entries in /proc/net/rt_cache. However, the number of objects
> > in the slab cache does grow day on day. About 4 days ago, it was only
> > about 600 active objects. Now it's more than twice that, and it'll
> > continue increasing until it hits 8192, where upon it's game over.
>
> I can confirm the behavior you are seeing -- does seem to be a leak
> somewhere. Below from a heavily used gateway with 26 days uptime:
>
> # wc -l /proc/net/rt_cache ; grep ip_dst /proc/slabinfo
> 12870 /proc/net/rt_cache
> ip_dst_cache 53327 57855
>
> Eventually I get the dst_cache overflow errors and have to reboot.
Can you provide some details, eg kernel configuration, loaded modules
and a brief overview of any netfilter modules you may be using.
Maybe we can work out what's common between our setups.
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Russell King
Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
maintainer of: 2.6 PCMCIA - http://pcmcia.arm.linux.org.uk/
2.6 Serial core
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