Re: [nsp] Memory leak?

From: Basil Kruglov (basil@cifnet.com)
Date: Thu Nov 16 2000 - 22:21:20 EST


On Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 11:06:39AM +0900, Kazu Kimura wrote:
> Hello,
>
> This morning, we have identified there was some abnormal activity in
> Internet backbone and checked http://www.telstra.net/ops/bgp.html.
>
> It seems there was something happened at around 20:00 GMT 16th.

PSINet/AS174 leaked ~10K non-aggregated /24 out of their 38/8

just before
Neighbor V AS MsgRcvd MsgSent TblVer InQ OutQ Up/Down State/PfxRcd
XXX.XXX.XX.XX 4 XXXX 173493 3646 646128 0 0 2d12h 89757

Neighbor V AS MsgRcvd MsgSent TblVer InQ OutQ Up/Down State/PfxRcd
XXX.XXX.XX.XX 4 XXXX 174980 3649 667179 0 0 2d12h 99757

> Checked our Cisco routers and found there was high CPU utilization at
> the time and suddenly the remaining process memory decrease about some M
> bytes.
>
> Even though the BGP table size comes back, the decrease memory will not
> be back.
>
> Is it inevitable for process memory to do memory leak in such a case?
> Or is this a Cisco bug?

Same here, running on c7200-k3p-mz.120-13.6.S1 (just upgraded), memory went
from 27M to ~23.3M and still holding.

-Basil Kruglov
 CIFNet, Inc.



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