[plug] 2.2.11 Out of memory

[Beau Kuiper]

On Thu, 23 Sep 1999, you wrote:
> G'day all..
> Using 2 machines.. both with 2.2.11 on them..
> using lftp to mirror a win95 partition onto an ext2 partition..
> In both directions.. after about 200mb over a 10baseT Ethernet
> the machine doing the reading dies from an out of memory error..
> just gives out of memory messages for every running process on the
> console, then locks up solid.. 
> Drop back to 2.0.35 and of course it works fine both ways..
> 
> memory leak in the tcp/ip stack in 2.2.11 ?

Yep, and it is very well documented and very well fixed in 2.2.12. Check for
the latest version of a kernel before getting upset over kernel bugs :)

> Or any other pointers ?
> 
> It's a very reproducible fault.. just ftp more than about 200mb
> over the ethernet, and the machine sourcing the data will fall
> over.. Not that good when it's your main fileserver.
> Just glad it happened now and not during working hours when it's
> serving 10 windows boxes..
> 
> Come to think of it, that might explain why the server has been
> falling over about every 25 days or so.. A Cumulative memory leak
> somewhere perhaps.. Never happened with 2.2.6..
> 
> Brad..

Beau Kuiper
ekuiperba at cc.curtin.edu.au