BIRD memory usage

[Ondrej Zajicek]

On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 01:55:25PM +0200, Alexander Frolkin wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> We are running BIRD on a number of servers.  It is configured with two BGP
> peers.
> 
> We are seeing BIRD using over a gig of memory, and this seems excessive,
> especially given the number of routes.
...
> Is there something we can do to reduce the memory usage?  Or could this
> be a memory leak bug?

Hi

This is definitely a memory leak, probably related to path merging. You
are using current code from git or patched 1.5.0? I will try to reproduce
it.

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Ondrej 'Santiago' Zajicek (email: santiago at crfreenet.org)
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