In kernel 2.0.32 I have experienced a memory leak since 2.0.31. Which
made me reboot my machines after two days of uptime. I finally found out
that it was during backuptime that almost all memory was consumed. This
can easely be reproduced by doing:
cd /; tar clf - . | nc -w 1 somehost discard &
Make "somehost" a machine on your local lan that has it's discard port
enabled. This is very similar to what a network backup station does.
And now, using your patch the leak seems to be in route.c line 1422:
Up 9 min:
24 route.c:1422
Up 11 min:
21277 route.c:1422
Up 12 min:
44965 route.c:1422
Up 13 min:
59828 route.c:1422
Up 14 min:
75578 route.c:1422
Up 16 min:
98298 route.c:1422
...And so on until out of memory. Now, thats what I call valuable
information to be sent to you kernel folks. I hope this will help, and if
you want more information just send me a note.
And here is my .config again:
CONFIG_NET=y
CONFIG_PCI=y
CONFIG_SYSVIPC=y
CONFIG_BINFMT_ELF=y
CONFIG_KERNEL_ELF=y
CONFIG_M586=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_FD=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE=y
CONFIG_INET=y
CONFIG_IP_FORWARD=y
CONFIG_SYN_COOKIES=y
CONFIG_IP_NOSR=y
CONFIG_SKB_LARGE=y
CONFIG_NETDEVICES=y
CONFIG_DUMMY=y
CONFIG_PPP=y
CONFIG_SLIP=y
CONFIG_SLIP_COMPRESSED=y
CONFIG_NET_ETHERNET=y
CONFIG_NET_EISA=y
CONFIG_DEC_ELCP=y
CONFIG_EXT2_FS=y
CONFIG_FAT_FS=y
CONFIG_MSDOS_FS=y
CONFIG_PROC_FS=y
CONFIG_SERIAL=y
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