On Sun, Mar 17, 2002 at 02:32:18AM -0800, Designer Seven wrote:
>
> I'm running a netfilter/iptables firewall with Linux
> 2.4.18 + iptables 1.2.5 patch-o-matic (portions of
> it).
>
> I've been having problems with memory consumption.
> Basically, as time goes by, 4kb chunks of memory are
> consumed every few seconds.
[...]
> Here is some info:
> 1108 root@firewall:/#cat /proc/meminfo
> total: used: free: shared: buffers:
> cached:
> Mem: 261722112 74821632 186900480 0 716800
> 35336192
This is obviously from when you don't have the problem.
Best approach is, I hope, to run
watch 'sort -nr -k 2 /proc/slabinfo'
Do you see any of the slabs continually growing?
You have so many modules loaded, that I won't hazard a guess to where
the memory is going to.
best regards
Patrick
