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. -- 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
