Re: 2.2.11: Complicated memory leak...

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Thu, 12 Aug 1999 14:11:08 +0100 (BST)


> Have got /proc/memleak up and running and am seeing something like
> 335000 calls to rtl8139.c:1229 (which is a call to dev_alloc_skb())
> on the way to filling up memory.

That is incoming network packets. So those should be arriving and leaving
again. That could be network layer bugs or rtl8139 bugs. Can you back out
the rtl8139 change and see if the problem stops occuring.

If not tell me which of
bridging, multicast routing, firewalling, masquerade, isdn4linux

you have enabled and if you are using the feature.

Alan

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