On Sat, 2001-11-10 at 15:09, Quietman wrote: > I have a strange problem with one of my potato boxes, snmpd sits and > slowly eats up all the memory. > > The box in question has hand-built 2.2.17 kernel, snmpd 4.1.1-2. > > Since being started on 27th October it is now using 90596k according to > memstat, this on a 96meg box. I cannot work out what is going on, the > only thing snmpd is used for on this box is for mrtg to report on > bandwidth usage. > > I have two other potato boxes with the same version of snmpd being used > for the same purpose without this problem. One has kernel 2.4.3, the > other 2.2.19. > > Any ideas where the problem might lie?
Try putting a 2.2.19 kernel on this misbehaving box. If it still eats the memory it's probably a config file problem for the system. Are the other two machines both running mrtg? --mike
