From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Dec 11 17:17:29 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from gndrsh.dnsmgr.net (GndRsh.dnsmgr.net [198.145.92.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 612791505F for ; Sat, 11 Dec 1999 17:17:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net) Received: (from freebsd@localhost) by gndrsh.dnsmgr.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA11100; Sat, 11 Dec 1999 17:17:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <199912120117.RAA11100@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> Subject: Re: Route table leaks In-Reply-To: from John Polstra at "Dec 11, 1999 04:38:19 pm" To: jdp@polstra.com (John Polstra) Date: Sat, 11 Dec 1999 17:17:21 -0800 (PST) Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > >> > >> It doesn't happen on most 3.x or 4.x systems either. For starters, > >> you won't see it unless you're running routed. Even then, you may > > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > > > I haven't run routed in 5 years, I see it. You meant ``a dynamic routing > > daemon'', and/or doing manual route delete's. Either of those can cause > > the leak. > > Damn. Caught me oversimplifying again ... :-) :-) I just didn't walk folks getting the idea that this was really a bug in routed, and since they don't run routed they needn't worry about it. It takes a bgp/gated router about 7 to 10 days to suffer catastrophic failure from this leak problem depending on the global route churn rate, or at least thats what _was_ happening to us here. I'll know for sure in another day or two when I compare kernel route table size to object counts. -- Rod Grimes - KD7CAX @ CN85sl - (RWG25) rgrimes@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message