Release 1.0.9

[Ondrej Filip]

On Tue, 20 Jul 2004, Loschyov Oleg wrote:

> Hello Everybody,
> 
> Friday, July 16, 2004, Anton Zharovtsev wrote:
> 
> 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

OK, the BIRD versions before 1.0.8 have memory leak.

> ## 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. :\

1.0.9 has many bugfixes. So I think, this is a proof.

> 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.

			OF

> 
> Truly Yours
> Oleg Loschyov.
>