On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 02:36:38PM +0200, Stéphane Bunel wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I'm working on a use case with two routers (foundry) emiting RIPv2
> messages in multicast over an ethernet link and one Ubuntu/Linux/64
> server with BIRD configured as a quiet RIP listener.
>
> Configuration is simple and working well. But as you can see below,
> BIRD seems to eat memory after each message it receive (+4K after
> receiving 2*3 RIP paquets). Memory used by BIRD seems to grow endless.
> I' cant say if it's a bug but it sound like.
>
> On the mailing list, i've found a thread of three messages speaking
> about things between libc and kernel. But I'm not sure this is related.
>
> Do you have notice this behavior and do you have find a solution ?
Could you try an attached patch and report a result?
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diff --git a/proto/rip/rip.c b/proto/rip/rip.c
index 0e5320c..4b60d75 100644
--- a/proto/rip/rip.c
+++ b/proto/rip/rip.c
@@ -269,6 +269,8 @@ rip_rte_update_if_better(rtable *tab, net *net, struct proto *p, rte *new)
(ipa_equal(old->attrs->from, new->attrs->from) &&
(old->u.rip.metric != new->u.rip.metric)) )
rte_update(tab, net, p, p, new);
+ else
+ rte_free(new);
}
/*
