Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 00:47:32 -0800
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: torvalds@osdl.org, alexn@dsv.su.se, kas@fi.muni.cz,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: Memory leak in 2.6.11-rc1?
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Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:
>
> This mornings magic numbers are:
> 
>  3
>  ip_dst_cache        1292   1485    256   15    1

I just did a q-n-d test here: send one UDP frame to 1.1.1.1 up to
1.1.255.255.  The ip_dst_cache grew to ~15k entries and grew no further. 
It's now gradually shrinking.  So there doesn't appear to be a trivial
bug..

>  Is no one interested in the fact that the DST cache is leaking and
>  eventually takes out machines?  I've had virtually zero interest in
>  this problem so far.

I guess we should find a way to make it happen faster.
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