Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 31 Oct 1996 01:44:29 -0500 (EST) | From | Charlie Ross <> | Subject | multicast Bug in kernel many versions... |
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Heres my problem... simple to explain.. probably hard to debug...
I have multicasting complied in.. (2.0.24 but the problem existed ever since i have tried multicasting...)
I start mrouted with a tunnel.. (the tunnel is to a cisco 4000 router) everything works... tunnel is up... can see the mbone... then I try to use another machine in my subnet (namely a sparc 4) with multicasting software... it sees the mbone too... honkey dorey..
but the more packets i send with that machine... the more my linux machine's memory gets eaten (not by any procceses I can see... with top... but it still gets eaten... presumadely by the kernel...) if I send a steady datastream from the sun... my linux machine eats all 24 meg in about 2 minutes.. then goes into swap-thrash... (unless I have the swap off then it just dies with "out of memory" errors)
If I kill the mrouted before the end... it does NOT free up the memory... It's a very strange problem...
any help?
-Chuck
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