This is similar to what i posted some days back. No one replied .. I have a situation where I have to do high frequency proxy polling(all the time) for hundreds of logical entities on a couple of hundred devices. And now i am not sure if i should use net-snmp at all.
cheers, bharat --- Stephen Dzurenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Howdy! > > I have a question about when and when not to free a > netsnmp_pdu. I have > created a few MIB files for a project I am working > on. I have also > written the C code to handle the OIDs in those MIBs. > I have that code > running in an SNMP sub agent. All appears to be > working well. But > there is an issue that has been nagging me for a > while. > > I originally learned to write SNMP code by copying > the tutorial code > from net-snmp.sourceforge.net. For example, from > http://net-snmp.sourceforge.net/tutorial-5/toolkit/demoapp/index.html. > > A relevent portion of my code, which obviously > originated from the > net-snmp tutorial, follows: > > netsnmp_pdu *pdu = NULL; > netsnmp_pdu *response = NULL; > ... > pdu = snmp_pdu_create(SNMP_MSG_GET); > ... > status = snmp_synch_response(ss, pdu, &response); > ... > if(response) > snmp_free_pdu(response); > > My question regarding the above code is why do we > free the reponse PDU > but not the pdu PDU??? In fact, when I have > attempted to free the pdu > PDU bad things have happened. > > My specific reason for asking is this: I have a MIB > handler which runs > on a cluster master node. For several tasks, it > attempts to get > information from all of the cluster compute nodes. > Thus, I have the > block of code above in a loop which executes for > each cluster compute > node. If I'm not freeing pdu from the previous loop > and getting a new > one via snmp_pdu_create in each loop, do I have a > memory leak somewhere??? > > Thanks. > > -Steve > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide > Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT > Products from real users. > Discover which products truly live up to the hype. > Start reading now. > http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/ > _______________________________________________ > Net-snmp-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Please see the following page to unsubscribe or > change other options: > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/net-snmp-users > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - You care about security. So do we. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/ _______________________________________________ Net-snmp-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please see the following page to unsubscribe or change other options: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/net-snmp-users
