Bug#279666: kernel-image-2.6.8-1-k7: Runs out of network buffers

[lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen)]

On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 01:14:35PM +0900, Horms wrote:
> Sounds like a memory leak in the kernel somewhere.

Certainly does.  I never saw it before 2.6.7 I think and it seems as of
one of the last 2.6.8 builds in testing it has gone away again.

> I think it would be worth seeing if the behaviour is exhibited 
> without those drivers. 

Well I have seen it on other machines without those drivers.

On the other hand it seems one of the recent kernel updates to 2.6.8 may
have fixed it (I think I saw something about some memory leaks in the
network code being patched) so it may actually be fixed now.  At least
my work machine running the same kernel (2.6.8 k7) shows perfectly
reasonable memory use with no unaccounted for memory after 19 days
uptime, which I think looks right.  I think this bug can probably be
closed for now.

Thanks.

Len Sorensen