From: "Kottaridis, Chris" <chris.kottaridis@windriver.com>
Subject: Re: Rpc.mountd growing 6 MB/day
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 14:27:35 -0700
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To: "Neil Brown" <neilb@suse.de>
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I'll give it a try, but time on the machine can be a problem to get so
it may take a while to actually try it.

I'll let you know how it goes 

Thanks

Chris Kottaridis
Senior Engineer
Wind River Systems
719-522-9786

-----Original Message-----
From: Neil Brown [mailto:neilb@suse.de] 
Sent: Monday, April 30, 2007 3:20 PM
To: Kottaridis, Chris
Cc: nfs@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [NFS] Rpc.mountd growing 6 MB/day

On Monday April 30, chris.kottaridis@windriver.com wrote:
> I have a situation where rpc.mountd is growing continuously and I am 
> not sure if it's a memory leak or expected behavior that can be 
> controlled with some configuration option.
>  
...
>  
> I am using the kernel NFSD, the kernel version is 2.6.10, the 
> nfs-utils version is nfs-utils-1.0.7

Can you try this patch - unless you are using rpcsec/gss, it is the only
known leak likely to affect that version.

If that doesn't help you might need to try valgrind or similar.

NeilBrown


commit 08964495c2a65f6228426e4565a50dae5b75834d
Author: Steinar H. Gunderson <sgunderson@bigfoot.com>
Date:   Fri Mar 16 11:26:35 2007 +1100

    Fix memory leak in mountd.
    
    Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>

diff --git a/support/export/client.c b/support/export/client.c index
33dfdb0..686c744 100644
--- a/support/export/client.c
+++ b/support/export/client.c
@@ -329,6 +329,7 @@ add_name(char *old, char *add)
 		strcat(new, ",");
 		strcat(new, cp);
 	}
+	free(old);
 	return new;
 }
 

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