Re: server about to crash

Rik van Riel (H.H.vanRiel@phys.uu.nl)
Wed, 8 Jul 1998 21:19:54 +0200 (CEST)

On Wed, 8 Jul 1998, Peter T. Breuer wrote:
> "A month of sundays ago Alan Cox wrote:"
> >
> > Ok thats a network leak. Whats the Config.in for the box
> >
>
> I'll watch this for a few more hours/days, then try Ingo's memleak
> detector (2.0.33 plus e2compr 0.3.7 patch compiled with gcc 2.7.2)

> # Automatically generated by make menuconfig: don't edit
> CONFIG_IP_ALWAYS_DEFRAG=y

I think I remember some discussions/bugreports about this
particular function leaking in 2.0.33.
Time to upgrade to .34 or to disable the always-defrag
option.

Of course, I'm no expert at either the networking code
or the 2.0 kernels, but you might want to try this...

Rik.
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