> On Fri, 26 Dec 1997, Phil Brutsche wrote:
>
> > You may want to try 2.0.33; a memory leak in the routing code was fixed
> > for this version.
>
> I still have a memory leak in 2.0.33 with a PPP firewall/gateway...
> (and none of the prior kernels is particularily stable in comparison - so
> I have to reboot every few days). The system only has 8M of ram (486
> SLC-33) and the memory seems to dissappear from that which makes me think
> it's the kernel rather than userspace leaking. (I added 64M swapfile just
> to test and it didn't make any difference - the system eventually (after
> a week) crashed).
>
> Any ideas?
>
Yeah, Ingo's memleak patch.
-Mike
Is there any interest out there in a config-option memleak for 2.0.x?
Or are leaks in 2.0.x pretty much history.. ie waste of time.