Re: Memory leak in 2.6.11-rc1?

[Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx>]

Russell King <rmk+lkml@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> This mornings magic numbers are:
> 
>  3
>  ip_dst_cache        1292   1485    256   15    1

I just did a q-n-d test here: send one UDP frame to 1.1.1.1 up to
1.1.255.255.  The ip_dst_cache grew to ~15k entries and grew no further. 
It's now gradually shrinking.  So there doesn't appear to be a trivial
bug..

>  Is no one interested in the fact that the DST cache is leaking and
>  eventually takes out machines?  I've had virtually zero interest in
>  this problem so far.

I guess we should find a way to make it happen faster.