Date: Thu, 05 Aug 1999 16:15:54 -0700 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: "Jan B. Koum " <jkb@best.com> Cc: jayanth <jayanth@yahoo-inc.com>, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: memory leak in the routing table ? Message-ID: <199908052315.QAA06131@implode.root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 05 Aug 1999 15:03:53 PDT." <19990805150353.A14009@best.com>
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>On Thu, Aug 05, 1999 at 02:02:36PM -0700, David Greenman <dg@root.com> wrote: >> >Were there any issues related to a memory leak in the routing table ? >> >I am running freebsd-stable. >> >After a few days vmstat -m shows the memory used by routing table to be >> >very high and log messages "arpresolve: cant allocate llinfo for >> >a.b.c.d" >> >"arplookup a.b.c.d failed could not allocate llinfo" , keep repeating >> >for >> >every ip address that requires an arp entry to be created. >> >> This is caused by a screwup in your network configuration, probably the >> netmask, such that the kernel hears the ARP broadcast from a peer, but doesn't >> know how to respond since it doesn't think that the requestor's IP address is >> reachable. > > The netmask looks ok. The machine is on a /23 > >img4% ifconfig -a >fxp0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 > inet 204.71.200.244 netmask 0xfffffe00 broadcast 204.71.201.255 > ether 00:a0:c9:fb:47:d5 > media: 100baseTX <full-duplex> status: active > supported media: autoselect 100baseTX <full-duplex> 100baseTX 10baseT/UTP <full-duplex> 10baseT/UTP >lo0: flags=8008<LOOPBACK,MULTICAST> mtu 16384 In the above mentioned arplookup failure, what is the IP address that is reported? -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org Creator of high-performance Internet servers - http://www.terasolutions.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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