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Memory leak in 6.312

Legoman
Hi there

I have a memory leak which occurs about every 4 months. It will suck up all available swap space and the bring the system to halt. I dont know yet which process it is. It's going on at the moment. This is the output of the top vmem processes:

top - 21:56:07 up 99 days,  6:09,  1 user,  load average: 0.30, 0.24, 0.19
Tasks: 132 total,   1 running, 124 sleeping,   0 stopped,   7 zombie
Cpu(s):  3.3% us,  1.3% sy,  0.0% ni, 95.0% id,  0.3% wa,  0.0% hi,  0.0% si
Mem:    191548k total,   166376k used,    25172k free,     7760k buffers
Swap:  1048816k total,   325972k used,   722844k free,    39304k cached

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND                                                                              
16173 root      15   0  107m  18m  292 S  0.0  9.7  25:59.70 snort_inline                                                                         
21644 root      16   0 57092  33m 1412 S  0.0 17.8   9:53.58 mdw_daemon.pl                                                                        
21639 root      16   0 19848 6028 1124 S  0.3  3.1  93:58.52 v4watcher                                                                            
21638 root      16   0 19376 8260 1216 S  0.0  4.3 554:38.89 dns_resolver                                                                         
 3038 root      18   0 17288 2328  832 S  0.0  1.2   0:00.32 aua.bin                                                                              

First suspect would be snort, I will post updates tomorrow.

Markus


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  • 0 in reply to patrickwh
    no solution, except rebooting. and maybe it's getting worse, as it started again just after the last reboot.

    to the swapping: as i use it only as packetfilter and vpn gateway the memory is fine. no swapping occurs (except the one-time swapping out of the reporter scripts).