From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: John Haxby Subject: Re: memory leak after enabling bridge-netfilter Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 11:20:24 +0100 Message-ID: <4BB321E8.2020300@oracle.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: netfilter-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: Ram Krishna Cc: netfilter@vger.kernel.org On 31/03/10 10:02, Ram Krishna wrote: > I am running my linux box as a bridge. The kernel version is 2.6.18-3 > I have enabled bridge-netfilter and iptables. I am seeing a memory > leak in the slab "size-64", even when I have not set any iptables > rules. > If I dont enable the bridge-netfilter and iptables kernel options then > there is no memory leak in bridge mode. > > Is there any patch known to fix this memory leak? Appreciate any inputs on this. > 2.6.18-3 ? Is that really a dash? Is that a Red Hat kernel? If so it's very, very old, probably RHEL5 beta. If it is the RHEL5 kernel then it was released on 2007-01-16 and you really should be using something newer, if only to pick up the security fixes. The slab leak bug was fixed long ago. jch