[lugip] losing memory

Thomas Pfau pfau at nbpfaus.net
Mon Sep 15 08:22:14 EDT 2008


It's a 2.4.something kernel (I'm not home right now or I'd look it up). 
It does do bridging.  The biggest leak I see watching slabinfo is the
size-2048 pool.  I have reported this to Actiontec.  They have not been
very responsive to my previous support requests.

Rod Nayfield wrote:
> What kernel version is this? (Your meminfo doesn't have many values
> that are useful here.)
>
> If the box falls over after 6 hours, I would look at slabinfo from
> boot time and compare to 5.5 hours later.  Skb's will be dynamic, but
> if they grow forever then you probably have a leak in the driver code,
> or something is happening where messages aren't being delivered and
> the kernel is buffering them forever. Does the box act like a bridge?
> Can you get a newer kernel/driver from the vendor?
>
> -rod

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