From: dwyer@cs.fsu.edu (Frank Dwyer) Subject: Re: Memory leak in kernel/net-2? Date: Sun, 1 Aug 1993 01:48:02 GMT
(As an aside to the article I just posted)
Just found something that could suggest the location of this problem:
If I connect my machine to our campus ethernet and run top on the machine, I
can see the free memory slowly going down. It appears as though ethernet
packets are getting stored in memory and never getting released. Hence the
eventual "no memory for IP Forward" messages and such.
If I disconnect the ethernet, the problem goes away. I've been sitting here
six minutes and no memory has "leaked".