Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161113AbWJDSLM (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Oct 2006 14:11:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161930AbWJDSLM (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Oct 2006 14:11:12 -0400 Received: from hera.kernel.org ([140.211.167.34]:59350 "EHLO hera.kernel.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161113AbWJDSLK (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Oct 2006 14:11:10 -0400 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Stephen Hemminger Subject: Re: ip_conntrack_core - possible memory leak in 2.4 Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2006 11:09:57 -0700 Organization: OSDL Message-ID: <20061004110957.032ac75e@freekitty> References: <20061004180201.GA18386@nomi.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: build.pdx.osdl.net 1159985397 30702 10.8.0.54 (4 Oct 2006 18:09:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@osdl.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2006 18:09:57 +0000 (UTC) X-Newsreader: Sylpheed-Claws 2.5.0-rc3 (GTK+ 2.10.5; i486-pc-linux-gnu) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1161 Lines: 34 On Wed, 4 Oct 2006 20:02:01 +0200 onovy@nomi.cz wrote: > hi, > > i have there MontaVista based router, with 2.4.17_mvl21-malta-mips_fp_le > kernel. I think, there is memory leak in ip_conntrack code. There are > eta 500 conntrack connection all the time. But after some day i get > "ip_conntrack: table full" in kmsg. > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack_max have 3072 value. > grep ip_conntrack /proc/slabinfo > ip_conntrack 3006 3250 384 319 325 1 > ^^ there are 3006 allocated conntracks > cat /proc/net/ip_conntrack | wc -l > 30 > ^^ in table are only 30 lines. > > Acording to this: > http://lists.netfilter.org/pipermail/netfilter-devel/2004-May/015628.html > i don't think, this is fixed in 2.4 tree, but i can't test it with newer > version. > > Thanks You paid for an expensive vendor kernel. Use their support, and make them fix it. -- Stephen Hemminger - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/