Alexey Kuznetsov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> Really bad overflow happens when lots of entries remain in use, because
> someone forgot to release the references to dst cache entries.
> It is the first thing to check.

Yes.  I once had a situation where a buggy user-land program held
many sockets open each of which had ancient packets stuck in their
receive queues.  The result was a lot of dst entries hanging around.

In such cases checking /proc/slabinfo could be useful.

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