Stephen Hemminger wrote:
On Wed, 21 Apr 2004 12:00:07 -0500
TC Hough <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I set up a bridge for my network and I'm having some trouble. At first
everything worked great, but after about 3 days of continuous bridging,
my bridge machine died. Approximately once a second, the message: "br:
memory squeeze!" would appear on the console. Keyboard input was mostly
frozen, as well. I could switch virtual consoles, but I couldn't type.
No traffic would pass through the bridge. When I rebooted, everything
seemed fine.
You have a memory leak in the kernel. What kernel and distro are you
using. Also, what kind of NIC's and other interfaces (tun, ppp, etc).
Also, what is the state of the bridge? br showstp br0
and the forwarding table? br showmacs br0
I agree it is probably a memory leak, but it is *possible* to get this
error if you just run out of available memory. I have been able to
reproduce this type of error by setting my send/receive packet socket
buffers very high and then flooding 200 connections with traffic, for example.
(I had a 256MB RAM machine)
You might want to make sure that your netdev-backlog settings are not too
big, for example.
Thanks,
Ben
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Ben Greear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com
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