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From: Olivier Warin <daffy@xview.net>
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Subject: Re: Memory leak in net80211 on FBSD 6.0
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Hi,
Maybee this can be fixed & commited to -CURRENT + FreeBSD6 directly ?
Regards,
			/Olivier

Le 30 nov. 05 =E0 16:38, Nate Nielsen a =E9crit :

> 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 =20
>>> piece.
>>>
>>> I'll continue to look into this (stumbling about), but if anyone =20
>>> 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 =20
>> 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.
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