From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pablo Neira Ayuso Subject: Re: conntrackd [ERROR] commit: Invalid argument Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2008 10:27:19 +0200 Message-ID: <489C0367.1010408@netfilter.org> References: <200806130122.16216.sabelka@iue.tuwien.ac.at> <4855B44B.5030504@netfilter.org> <200806162228.17436.sabelka@iue.tuwien.ac.at> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Marco Barbero , netfilter@vger.kernel.org, Netfilter Development Mailinglist To: Rainer Sabelka Return-path: Received: from mail.us.es ([193.147.175.20]:55942 "EHLO us.es" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754494AbYHHLhs (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Aug 2008 07:37:48 -0400 In-Reply-To: <200806162228.17436.sabelka@iue.tuwien.ac.at> Sender: netfilter-devel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hi Rainer, Rainer Sabelka wrote: > Thanks Pablo. I've tested your patches but unfortunately I still get "Cannot > allocate memory" sometimes. > > Jun 16 22:24:45 fw1b conntrack-tools[5599]: committing external cache > Jun 16 22:24:45 fw1b conntrack-tools[5599]: commit-create: Cannot allocate > memory > Jun 16 22:24:45 fw1b conntrack-tools[5599]: Committed 623 new entries > Jun 16 22:24:45 fw1b conntrack-tools[5599]: 1 entries can't be committed Sorry for the late reply. The problem seems to be in the kernel side. It was introduced in 2.6.23. I have posted a patch that fixes it [1]. It applies to 2.6.27-rc but it should be easy to backport it. [1] http://marc.info/?l=netfilter-devel&m=121812264402131&w=2 -- "Los honestos son inadaptados sociales" -- Les Luthiers