* Tom Beard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-06-29 12:33]: > Is anyone aware of a memory leak in bgpd?
no. that doesn't mean there isn't any... > I am running two instances, both on clean installs of OpenBSD 3.9 and > both seem to be eating memory like there is no tomorrow. > > Both instances have the same setup, 1 full view, ~15 peering sessions > with just a few routes each and an internal session to each other. I > have softreconfig set to no in and out for all sessions and both > instances use ~85M when started however over the next day or two this > will keep on climbing until they reach ~800M at which point the box > seems to crash and burn. > > I would be interested to know if anyone else has seen this behaviour or > has any idea what could be causing it. there is no "generic" memory leak that big, taht would have been noticed. in fact, there shouldn't be any emmeory leaks in the cases we tested, we're pretty anal about that :) however, you might hit a case we did not test. so... what process is eating all the memory? the RDE or one of the others? does bgpctl sh rib mem give any hints where all the memory goes to? -- BS Web Services, http://www.bsws.de/ OpenBSD-based Webhosting, Mail Services, Managed Servers, ... Unix is very simple, but it takes a genius to understand the simplicity. (Dennis Ritchie)
