Re: snmpd eating memory
On Sat, 2001-11-10 at 15:09, Quietman wrote:
> I have a strange problem with one of my potato boxes, snmpd sits and
> slowly eats up all the memory.
>
> The box in question has hand-built 2.2.17 kernel, snmpd 4.1.1-2.
>
> Since being started on 27th October it is now using 90596k according to
> memstat, this on a 96meg box. I cannot work out what is going on, the
> only thing snmpd is used for on this box is for mrtg to report on
> bandwidth usage.
>
> I have two other potato boxes with the same version of snmpd being used
> for the same purpose without this problem. One has kernel 2.4.3, the
> other 2.2.19.
>
> Any ideas where the problem might lie?
Try putting a 2.2.19 kernel on this misbehaving box. If it still eats
the memory it's probably a config file problem for the system. Are the
other two machines both running mrtg?
--mike
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