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Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!ariel!werple.apana.org.au!news From: andrew@werple.apana.org.au (Andrew Herbert) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: major 386BSD kernel memory leak discovered Message-ID: <1bqmq7INN920@werple.apana.org.au> Date: 18 Oct 92 03:48:23 GMT Organization: werple public-access UNIX, Melbourne Lines: 11 NNTP-Posting-Host: werple.apana.org.au I've finally tracked down the source of my 386BSD kmem_malloc panics! :) It turns out that each outgoing ping from a 386BSD machine gobbles nearly 25KB of mbufs from the kernel memory pool. Ping echoes don't have this problem. Looking through the /sys/netinet code I couldn't see anything particularly amiss, although the m_free() calls seem very distant from the m_gethdr()s. Has anyone had more success with finding this leak? thanks, Andrew