Memory seems to grow endless

Stéphane Bunel sbunel at orbus.fr
Fri Sep 3 17:59:29 CEST 2010


Le 03/09/2010 16:09, Ondrej Zajicek a écrit :
> 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?
>

My minute test show that the patch seems to fix the problem. Well done !

Regards,
Stéphane.






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