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From: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
To: "Steinar H. Gunderson" <sesse@debian.org>
Cc: nfs@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Memory leak in mountd
Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 21:09:39 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <17988.20211.594570.156375@notabene.brown> (raw)
In-Reply-To: message from Steinar H. Gunderson on Friday May 11

On Friday May 11, sesse@debian.org wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> A user complained that mountd was slowly eating up all available memory with
> about a mount per second. We tracked it down, and ended up with the following
> patch:

Bother - I should have delayed 1.1.0 one more day.... but such is
life.

Thanks.  I've applied the patch.

> The patch was against 1.0.10 (Debian stable), but should be equivalently
> applied for 1.1.0. (Also, we backported the add_name() leak fix.) In
> addition, there's a leak in innetgr() (in glibc) that hits mountd quite hard
> when using netgroups, but it appears to already be fixed in at least Red Hat,
> and I guess this is the wrong place to complain about glibc issues :-)

I guess, but it is good to know it nonetheless.

NeilBrown

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Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-11 10:49 [PATCH] Memory leak in mountd Steinar H. Gunderson
2007-05-11 11:09 ` Neil Brown [this message]

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