Why do these messages happen and 2.4.0-t4p6 eats all memory for itself.

From: David Ford (david@kalifornia.com)
Date: Fri Jul 14 2000 - 14:58:46 EST


I see these messages frequently throughout the day on this machine as
well as others. Why do they happen?

Both hosts mentioned here are using 2.4.0-test4-pre6. mail.kali is a
machine in my bedroom presently and the cable modem is using a mix of
iptables NAT and GRE tunneling for addressing. The NAT 1:many is only
for ports 80, 993, and ftp.

     Jul 14 12:50:44 mail.kalifornia.com kernel: TW_REC: reject
     openreq 379854619/408927 24.30.182.109/4441
     Jul 14 12:50:45 mail.kalifornia.com kernel: TW_REC: reject
     openreq 379854619/408930 24.30.182.109/4441
     Jul 14 12:50:47 mail.kalifornia.com kernel: TW_REC: reject
     openreq 379854619/5392876 24.30.182.109/1632
     Jul 14 12:50:49 mail.kalifornia.com kernel: TW_REC: reject
     openreq 379854619/408938 24.30.182.109/4441
     Jul 14 12:50:50 mail.kalifornia.com kernel: TW_REC: reject
     openreq 379854619/5393176 24.30.182.109/1632

I've seen these messages for over a year on different kernels. Until
now I've mostly ignored them. However mail.kali is now spontaneously
rebooting several times a day. Just before rebooting, all memory is
consumed, most of it appears in the buffers. -But-, a ps aux doesn't
reflect the usage nor does anything appear to be abnormal. VM killing
messages appear just before it reboots.

I'm now running a watch on free and vmstat, if someone wants more stats,
please let me know what program to run to collect them.

Thanks
-d

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