Re: Memory leak in 2.6.11-rc1?

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Thu Jan 27 2005 - 03:48:51 EST


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.
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