> Network buffer usage still rising ...
>
> "A month of sundays ago Peter T. Breuer wrote:"
> > "A month of sundays ago Alan Cox wrote:"
> > >
> > > > Networking buffers in use : 9674
> > >
> > > Thats the interesting one, if that gradually and continually climbs
> >
> > First indications are that it does. I have been tarring over nfs to
> > /dev/null. But I was doing that before too.
> >
> > Networking buffers in use : 12222
> > Network buffers locked by drivers : 0
> > Total network buffer allocations : 4759209
>
> > (2.0.33 compiled with 2.7.2).
>
> Now
>
> Networking buffers in use : 15364
> Network buffers locked by drivers : 0
> Total network buffer allocations : 5513555
> Total failed network buffer allocs : 0
> Total free while locked events : 0
> IP fragment buffer size : 0
>
> I didn't do anything much since last post. Real memory usage dropped a
> fraction, as far as I can tell.
>
>
> Peter
Two possible options:
1) try 2.1.34 to make sure that it isn't a leak which has already been
fixed.
2) try Ingo's memleak patch.. it works VERY well. If you need a patch
which goes in clean against a specific kernel version, just holler.
-Mike
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