Memory seems to grow endless

Ondrej Zajicek santiago at crfreenet.org
Fri Sep 3 16:09:21 CEST 2010


On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 02:36:38PM +0200, Stéphane Bunel wrote:
> Hi there,
>
>   I'm working on a use case with two routers (foundry) emiting RIPv2  
> messages in multicast over an ethernet link and one Ubuntu/Linux/64  
> server with BIRD configured as a quiet RIP listener.
>
>   Configuration is simple and working well. But as you can see below,  
> BIRD seems to eat memory after each message it receive (+4K after  
> receiving 2*3 RIP paquets). Memory used by BIRD seems to grow endless.  
> I' cant say if it's a bug but it sound like.
>
>   On the mailing list, i've found a thread of three messages speaking  
> about things between libc and kernel. But I'm not sure this is related.
>
>   Do you have notice this behavior and do you have find a solution ?

Could you try an attached patch and report a result?

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