Re: 2.6.0: something is leaking memory

[Ricky Beam]

On 4 Jan 2004, Roland Dreier wrote:
>Yup, looks like IPv6 is leaking memory (since your netstat shows
>nowhere near 19K sockets):
>
> > tcp6_sock          19729  19732   1024    4    1 : tunables   54   27    0 : slabdata   4933   4933      0
>
>Now to figure out why...

Of course, there are a lot of sockets in CLOSE_WAIT.  That's where I'd start
looking... if I actually cared about IPv6 :-)  There used to be the same
sort of problem for IPv4 (sockets would never go away), but no one ever fixed
it -- a rewrite of the network stack made it go away.

--Ricky


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