Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 17:41:08 +0100 From: Olivier Warin <daffy@xview.net> To: nielsen@memberwebs.com Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Memory leak in net80211 on FBSD 6.0 Message-ID: <7B3E3D6A-D447-4062-8D07-03C9094A3022@xview.net> In-Reply-To: <20051130153839.53AA570DCE3@mail.npubs.com> References: <438CE0A8.4010205@memberwebs.com> <438D0896.1070808@memberwebs.com> <438D1A99.6000803@errno.com> <20051130153839.53AA570DCE3@mail.npubs.com>
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Hi, Maybee this can be fixed & commited to -CURRENT + FreeBSD6 directly ? Regards, /Olivier Le 30 nov. 05 =E0 16:38, Nate Nielsen a =E9crit : > Sam Leffler wrote: >> Nate Nielsen wrote: >>> I've put debugging code in node_alloc() and node_free() (in >>> net80211/ieee80211_node.c) and can confirm that thousands of >>> ieee80211_node structures are being allocated, at a cost of 1K a =20 >>> piece. >>> >>> I'll continue to look into this (stumbling about), but if anyone =20 >>> has any >>> advice or ideas of where to look, I'd be eternally grateful. >> >> Please don't spam lots of groups. > > Apologies. > >> I'm aware of the leak (David Young >> found it in netbsd) and have a partial fix. I'll send it to you =20 >> directly. > > Wonderful. Looking forward to that. > > I've had other problems with rate control in the atheros driver. But > I'll wait till I apply your patch before I look into them further, as > I'd imagine it's possible the problems are related. -- Olivier Warin - http://xview.net Stay connected !
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