From owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 17 00:50:33 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17C79106564A; Sat, 17 Jan 2009 00:50:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jason.dicioccio@ods.org) Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.191]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F5678FC1B; Sat, 17 Jan 2009 00:50:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jason.dicioccio@ods.org) Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id h3so287317nfh.33 for ; Fri, 16 Jan 2009 16:50:31 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.210.20.17 with SMTP id 17mr3960824ebt.37.1232153430858; Fri, 16 Jan 2009 16:50:30 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.210.11.1 with HTTP; Fri, 16 Jan 2009 16:50:30 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 16:50:30 -0800 From: "Jason DiCioccio" To: vwe@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <200812311353.mBVDraLJ042040@freefall.freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org, freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org, bugs-followup@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kern/130059: [panic] Leaking 50k mbufs/hour X-BeenThere: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Bug reports List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2009 00:50:33 -0000 I narrowed this bug down to the following patch to djb's ucspi-tcp (adds ipv6 functionality): http://www.fefe.de/ucspi/ I don't think that userland processes should be able to wreak that much havoc on the network stack. Another thing of note is that even if I kill the processes causing the problem, the mbufs are never reclaimed. Seems like a permanent leak. When I got rid of the ipv6 patch, the mbufs stopped building up and everything has been fine.. Note that the ipv6 traffic for this process was fairly minimal.