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Date:      Sun, 7 May 2000 22:15:40 -0700 (PDT)
From:      "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
To:        brian@Awfulhak.org (Brian Somers)
Cc:        brian@FreeBSD.org (Brian Somers), cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/ppp mbuf.c
Message-ID:  <200005080515.WAA23852@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
In-Reply-To: <200005072221.XAA51544@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> from Brian Somers at "May 7, 2000 11:21:54 pm"

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> > Killing off and restarting ppp clears it right up.  We started out with 3.4
> > and are now at 4.0-stable and still seeing it.  I am starting to suspect
> > the equipment on the other end (Max TNT TOS 7.2.3).
> 
> It would be interesting to know if the memory footprint was 
> growing...  If this bug did actually cause problems, it would 
> eventually cause enough (probably fragmented) leakage to have a 
> noticeable effect.

I am tracking memory usage now though I don't recall it being anything
very large ever.

> 
> However, as m_append() is only called from nat_cmd.c, you'd need to 
> be using NAT to be affected by this in the first place.

Well, then it's not this bug !  No NAT on that link.

> FWIW, I've now got a ppp-over-ppp setup with the top ppp being a 
> permanent (-ddial) link, and I don't see any slowdown - *BUT*, I 
> re-open the link twice a day when the transport-level ppp switches 
> ISP.  It may be interesting to just ``open lcp'' next time you see 
> the slow-down.  If that solves the problem temporarily, it indicates 
> that it's probably not anything local that's going wrong.

Well do.

-- 
Rod Grimes - KD7CAX @ CN85sl - (RWG25)               rgrimes@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net


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