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From: Guido van Rooij <guido@gvr.org>
To: Vector <freebsd@itpsg.com>
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Subject: Re: ipnat memory leak?
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On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 10:51:52PM -0600, Vector wrote:
> I was using ipfw and natd but I wanted to move nat into the kernel so I
> recompiled with ipfilter and ipnat.  Now, after terminating natd, and
> setting up ipnat rules in /etc/ipnat.rules, I see memory increase at a rate
> of just under 1MB per minutes.  Has anyone else seen a memory leak in ipnat
> or ipfilter?

If at the same rate, the amount of nat entries is growing, there is
no leak. Doesn't the amount of memory allocated, stabilize?

Btw: you can see the amount of netries in the various tables with
ipnat -s
andthe stae table entries with
ipfstat -s

-Guido