Re: kernel/3750: Kernel memory leaks of type routetbl

[Federico Giannici <giannici@neomedia.it>]

The following reply was made to PR kernel/3750; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Federico Giannici <giannici@neomedia.it>
To: gnats@openbsd.org
Cc:  
Subject: Re: kernel/3750: Kernel memory leaks of type routetbl
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 14:49:50 +0200

 Otto Moerbeek wrote:
 > 
 > On Sun, 18 Apr 2004, Giannici Federico wrote:
 > 
 > 
 >> >From "vmstat -m" we found that the memory leaks are of type "routetbl".
 >> Please note that there is no routing daemon in any of our servers, and
 >> that no routing protocol is in use in the network. Please note too
 >> that probably a lot of ICMP redirect packets are issued in the network.
 > 
 > 
 > It is very likely this is solved in 3.5 by this commit:
 > 
 > http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/sys/netinet/in_pcb.c?rev=1.75&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup
 > 
 > please try a snapshot or 3.5 (when it is out) and report back if the 
 > problem has disappeared.
 
 Applied that patch on a 34-stable and the problem is solved.
 
 
 Thanks.
 
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