From owner-freebsd-isp Sun May 14 19:13:15 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from velvet.sensation.net.au (serial1-2-velvet-brunswick.sensation.net.au [203.20.114.195]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2BEB437B950 for ; Sun, 14 May 2000 19:13:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rowan@sensation.net.au) Received: from localhost (rowan@localhost) by velvet.sensation.net.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA56154 for ; Mon, 15 May 2000 12:13:00 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from rowan@sensation.net.au) X-Authentication-Warning: velvet.sensation.net.au: rowan owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 12:12:58 +1000 (EST) From: Rowan Crowe To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: tcpdump - memory leak? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 15 May 2000, Colin Campbell wrote: > Hi, > > Could it be a name resolution cache? The longer it runs the more it grows? (Hope you don't mind me posting back to the list.) Anyway good guess, unfortunately I run it with the -n parameter... IP addresses only, do not resolve names. :-( > > And after I kill and restart it: > > > > Mem: 6068K Active, 1628K Inact, 5064K Wired, 536K Cache, 2544K Buf, 9584K Free > > ... > > 17609 root 4 0 900K 720K bpf 0:00 0.42% 0.27% tcpdump > > > > Approximately 2 hours later, not sure if it's "rising" or just happens to > > be using a bit more memory at this instant: > > > > 17609 root 4 0 984K 900K bpf 0:22 0.00% 0.00% tcpdump Here's what it shows now: Mem: 7548K Active, 1632K Inact, 5080K Wired, 536K Cache, 2477K Buf, 8084K Free ... 17609 root 28 0 1344K 1260K RUN 7:32 0.04% 0.04% tcpdump Definitely growing. Cheers. -- Rowan Crowe http://www.rowan.sensation.net.au/ Sensation Internet Services http://info.sensation.net.au/ Melbourne, Australia Phone: +61-3-9388-9260 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message