Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 17:41:39 -0800
From: Phil Oester <kernel@linuxace.com>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>, Robert.Olsson@data.slu.se,
       akpm@osdl.org, 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?
Message-ID: <20050128014139.GA16371@linuxace.com>
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On Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 12:17:01AM +0000, Russell King wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 12:33:26PM -0800, David S. Miller wrote:
> > So they won't be listed in /proc/net/rt_cache (since they've been
> > removed from the lookup table) but they will be accounted for in
> > /proc/net/stat/rt_cache until the final release is done on the
> > routing cache object and it can be completely freed up.
> > 
> > Do you happen to be using IPV6 in any way by chance?
> 
> Yes.  Someone suggested this evening that there may have been a recent
> change to do with some IPv6 refcounting which may have caused this
> problem.  Is that something you can confirm?

FWIW, I do not use IPv6, and it is not compiled into the kernel.

Phil
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