From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ip_conntrack_core - possible memory leak in 2.4
Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2006 11:09:57 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061004110957.032ac75e@freekitty> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20061004180201.GA18386@nomi.cz
On Wed, 4 Oct 2006 20:02:01 +0200
onovy@nomi.cz wrote:
> hi,
>
> i have there MontaVista based router, with 2.4.17_mvl21-malta-mips_fp_le
> kernel. I think, there is memory leak in ip_conntrack code. There are
> eta 500 conntrack connection all the time. But after some day i get
> "ip_conntrack: table full" in kmsg.
> /proc/sys/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack_max have 3072 value.
> grep ip_conntrack /proc/slabinfo
> ip_conntrack 3006 3250 384 319 325 1
> ^^ there are 3006 allocated conntracks
> cat /proc/net/ip_conntrack | wc -l
> 30
> ^^ in table are only 30 lines.
>
> Acording to this:
> http://lists.netfilter.org/pipermail/netfilter-devel/2004-May/015628.html
> i don't think, this is fixed in 2.4 tree, but i can't test it with newer
> version.
>
> Thanks
You paid for an expensive vendor kernel. Use their support, and
make them fix it.
--
Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-10-04 18:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-10-04 18:02 ip_conntrack_core - possible memory leak in 2.4 onovy
2006-10-04 18:09 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2006-10-04 18:50 ` onovy
2006-10-05 19:30 ` Willy Tarreau
2006-10-05 21:55 ` onovy
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