From: cmsv <cmsv@wirelesspt.net>
To: b.a.t.m.a.n@lists.open-mesh.org
Subject: Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] batman-adv: memory leak?
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 15:49:32 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <52E02EDC.3080805@wirelesspt.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <52E003DD.6040302@meshcoding.com>
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I had the same problem which caused reboots but after the last
batman-adv update i am not seeing it.
all my devices are have mb ram
i am using network coding and 1560 MTU
On 01/22/2014 12:46 PM, Antonio Quartulli wrote:
> On 22/01/14 18:45, Russell Senior wrote:
>>>>>>> "Daniel" == Daniel <daniel@makrotopia.org> writes:
>>
>> Daniel> On 01/22/2014 07:04 AM, Russell Senior wrote:
>>>> Has anybody else seen this memory leak? Leads on where it's coming
>>>> from? Not a runaway process, at least not that top shows up. Just
>>>> a gradual disappearance from MemFree that /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
>>>> doesn't fix. It isn't adhoc mode, and I can associate the two
>>>> devices over adhoc and move a bunch of data with no memory lost,
>>>> but turning on batman-adv seems to sink it.
>>
>> Daniel> Yes, and I tested (compile-time selected) with and without
>> Daniel> network coding, and (at run-time) with and without
>> Daniel> fragmentation (as I also bumped into the MTU calculation
>> Daniel> problem later fixed by the patch on this list) -- any 32MB RAM
>> Daniel> devices reboots after roughly 30 minutes due to OOM without
>> Daniel> substantial traffic, if there is traffic then apparently even
>> Daniel> faster...
>>
>> The memory leak I see seems to commence as soon as a batman-adv
>> neighbor (same version, in this case 15) appears and stops when the
>> neighbor goes away.
>>
>
> Thank you very much for the hint Russel!
> Today I tried with one node only, but kmemleak did not report anything...
>
>> I am going to try enabling kmemleak and see of that tells me anything.
>>
>
> Thanks! Keep us informed!
>
> Cheers,
>
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Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-01-21 10:22 [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH maint] batman-adv: fix soft-interface MTU computation Antonio Quartulli
2014-01-21 10:31 ` Antonio Quartulli
2014-01-27 7:57 ` Marek Lindner
2014-01-21 18:43 ` Russell Senior
2014-01-21 19:00 ` Antonio Quartulli
2014-01-22 6:04 ` Russell Senior
2014-01-22 7:03 ` Antonio Quartulli
2014-01-22 7:04 ` [B.A.T.M.A.N.] memleak (Was: [PATCH maint] batman-adv: fix soft-interface MTU computation) Antonio Quartulli
2014-01-22 7:37 ` [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH maint] batman-adv: fix soft-interface MTU computation Daniel
2014-01-22 17:45 ` [B.A.T.M.A.N.] batman-adv: memory leak? Russell Senior
2014-01-22 17:46 ` Antonio Quartulli
2014-01-22 19:18 ` Russell Senior
2014-01-22 20:49 ` cmsv [this message]
2014-01-22 23:57 ` Russell Senior
2014-01-23 0:10 ` cmsv
2014-01-23 3:35 ` Daniel
2014-01-26 12:57 ` Daniel
2014-01-26 14:21 ` Antonio Quartulli
2014-01-26 14:24 ` [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH maint] batman-adv: release vlan object after checking the CRC Antonio Quartulli
2014-01-27 18:43 ` Russell Senior
2014-01-26 16:05 ` [B.A.T.M.A.N.] batman-adv: memory leak? cmsv
2014-01-26 16:07 ` Antonio Quartulli
2014-01-26 16:13 ` Antonio Quartulli
2014-01-27 17:55 ` cmsv
2014-01-28 1:21 ` Russell Senior
2014-01-28 1:30 ` cmsv
2014-01-29 8:10 ` Russell Senior
2014-01-29 21:48 ` cmsv
2014-02-08 3:08 ` cmsv
2014-02-08 10:53 ` Felix Fietkau
2014-02-12 7:23 ` Antonio Quartulli
2014-02-12 10:40 ` cmsv
2014-02-12 11:41 ` Antonio Quartulli
2014-02-13 0:55 ` cmsv
2014-02-13 7:23 ` Antonio Quartulli
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