Stephan Engström wrote:
>
> I have a busy webserver that stops responding to network traffic when
> running for 7-10 days. First the server will gradually slow down and
> then all network traffic will stop. The syslog is full of:
>
> dst cache overflow
> NET: 173 messages suppressed.
>
> The machine is alive and well but to start network traffic I have to
> reboot the machine.
> Doing a 'netstat -t -n -o' says that there are 5364 connections in
> LAST_ACK state, is this some kind of DOS or what?
>
> I have some information (netstat and some /proc output) if more
> information is needed.
>
I had the exact same problem on my laptop. This was a memory leak
in the routing code? Anyway, it was fixed in patch-2.3.35.
Cheers
Kjartan Maraas
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