I cannot remember what it was compiled with but it was probably gcc.

Shanon Loveridge
System Architect
Reporting Data Warehouse (RDW)
Phone: 03 9693 4030



-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Palmer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, 23 October 2004 12:59 AM
To: Loveridge, Shanon
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: IP Filters causing kernel panic on Solaris 9


Thanks..

I did get a crash and here is the output:

Page Summary                Pages                MB  %Tot
------------     ----------------  ----------------  ----
Kernel                      11696                91    9%
Anon                        34441               269   28%
Exec and libs                2460                19    2%
Page cache                   8187                63    7%
Free (cachelist)            58544               457   47%
Free (freelist)              9735                76    8%

Total                      125063               977

I did not think the Kernel usage was high.. But, I am noticing that the
overall memory usage is higher than it used to be. What did you compile
your IPFilters with?

Scott

> I get something similar to this and it is due to a memory leak causing the
> kernel to slowly take up all available memory. You might want to run a sar
> -k or vmstat and check it frequently to see if your kernel size is
> growing. Also did you get a crash dump? If you do a mdb -k on it and run
> ::memstat and check your kernel size.
>
> Shanon Loveridge
> System Architect
> Reporting Data Warehouse (RDW)
> Phone: 03 9693 4030
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Scott Palmer
> Sent: Friday, 22 October 2004 2:42 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: IP Filters causing kernel panic on Solaris 9
>
>
> I recently upgraded my IP Filters on a Solaris 9 Sparc box and now the
> kernel is panicking every few days to a week. I do not get any errors when
> the system loads.
>
> Below are the versions of IP Filters and GCC..
>
> IP Filters 4.1.3
> GCC 3.4.1
>
> Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated. I downloaded the trial version
> of Sun's compilers and have thought about building with that to see if it
> helps.
>
> Thanks..
> Scott
>
>



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