Release 1.0.9

[Loschyov Oleg]

Hello Everybody,

Friday, July 16, 2004, Anton Zharovtsev wrote:

ZA> Hi all.
ZA> It seems, that bird 1.0.8 anf 1.0.9 has some memory leak.
ZA> I use only RIP and I see something like this:

ZA> root at netserver:~# ps axu | grep bird
ZA> root       154  0.0 26.7 17788 16768 ?       Ss   Jul15   0:02
ZA> /usr/sbin/bird
ZA> root at netserver:~# kill 154
ZA> root at netserver:~#
ZA> root at netserver:~# bird
ZA> root at netserver:~# ps axu | grep bird
ZA> root       855  0.0  0.9  1608  584 ?        Ss   08:54   0:00 bird
ZA> root at netserver:~#
ZA> root at netserver:~# ps axu | grep bird
ZA> root       855  0.0  1.7  2140 1124 ?        Ss   08:54   0:00 bird
ZA> root at netserver:~#

ZA> I've tried 3 version of bird on 3 differet machines, results was the
ZA> same :-(.
ZA> As You can see memory usage is growing ... On one my machine it was 114M
ZA> today :-(.
ZA> In my "old" and stable router I use bird-1.0.7 and it is not growing.

So I`ve decide to check this. After making commands:
service bird restart
free
I see that nearly 50 Mb of free memory appeared.
Strange isn`t it. So I wait a couple of days to check one more time.
Today I see following:
## my main router (rh9,p3-600,bird-1.0.7-1)

[root at relay root]# ps aux |grep bird
root     15263  0.0  3.1 19636 16416 ?       S    Jul18   0:31 bird
[root at relay root]# birdc
BIRD 1.0.6 ready.
bird> show status
BIRD 1.0.6
Current server time is 20-07-2004 09:42:59
Last reboot on 18-07-2004 04:02:52
Last reconfiguration on 18-07-2004 04:02:52
Daemon is up and running
bird> q
[root at relay root]# service bird restart
Stopping BIRD:                                             [  OK  ]
Starting BIRD:                                             [  OK  ]
[root at relay root]# !ps
ps aux |grep bird
root     16437  0.3  0.1  1668  580 ?        S    09:43   0:00 bird
[root at relay root]#

so in 2 days of uptime it grows up to 16 mb
## another router in the same network segment
## (AltLinux Master 2.2, celeron 1,1 Ghz,bird-1.0.9-1)
[root at xp report]# ps -aux |grep bird
root     18329  0.0  0.1  1676  820 ?        S    04:02   0:01 bird
[root at xp report]# birdc
BIRD 1.0.9 ready.
bird> show status
BIRD 1.0.9
Current server time is 20-07-2004 09:50:02
Last reboot on 20-07-2004 04:02:32
Last reconfiguration on 20-07-2004 04:02:32
Daemon is up and running
bird> q
[root at xp report]# service bird restart
Stopping BIRD for IPv4:                                                 [  OK  ]
Starting BIRD for IPv4:                                                 [  OK  ]
[root at xp report]# ps -aux |grep bird
root     29814  0.3  0.1  1516  588 ?        S    09:50   0:00 bird

Here i see quite the contrary result. 1.0.9 version is stable and does
not grown in memory. :\
Of course I`ve tried to see something in "dump resources" command, but
it shows nothing.
So I`m interesting about the reason of growing memory allocated for
bird.

Truly Yours
Oleg Loschyov.