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Subject: Re: Memory leak in net80211 on FBSD 6.0
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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 piece.
>>
>> I'll continue to look into this (stumbling about), but if anyone 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 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.

Cheers,
Nate