[j-nsp] J series users bitten by the massive memory useincrease with flow mode add, please file jtac cases.

[Heath Jones]

What is the process name? I thought on the J series it was the fwdd process
or something similar that controlled forwarding.

On 21 July 2010 21:52, Christopher E. Brown <chris.brown at acsalaska.net>wrote:

> On 7/21/2010 12:48 PM, Heath Jones wrote:
> > I think you should actually give the renaming of the binary a go. If you
> > rename flowd (or name of process using memory), it wont be found and
> > loaded on next boot. Obviously this is a hack and not what you want to
> > be relying on in a production network, but if it solves the issue then
> > good. That and hassle Juniper about a longer term solution.
> >
> > The other solution is to remove the statement that causes the daemon to
> > load on boot, but I cant remember where that is and what loads it (init
> > / rc?).
> >
> > Killing the process first will let you check if there are any other side
> > effects.
>
>
> The process is required for forwarding.  It can be disabled in the config,
> but then all
> routing stops.
>
>
>
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