Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: 2.4.20-ac2 Memory Leak? | From | Greg Stark <> | Date | 18 Mar 2003 19:05:11 -0500 |
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Martin Josefsson <gandalf@wlug.westbo.se> writes:
> On Wed, 2003-03-19 at 00:46, Greg Stark wrote: > > Martin Josefsson <gandalf@wlug.westbo.se> writes: > > > > > This can be the source of your problems, connections can get very long > > > timeouts and stay in ip_conntrack. > > > > Is there a way to list the connections and confirm this is the problem? > > It seems it would require an awful lot of connections to consume megabytes of > > memory. > > cat /proc/net/ip_conntrack > > The third field is the timeout in seconds. > The fourth field is the state of the connection, if it's TIME_WAIT with > a large timeout then it's the list handling bug. (iirc it was TIME_WAIT > that showed the problem...)
Nope, a total of 16 entries in ip_conntrack, one of which is in TIME_WAIT with a timeout of 2m.
> The default tcp timeout is 5 days for esatblished connections. > > There's a patch in patch-o-matic that enables you to tune the timeouts > without having to edit the source. Instructions on how to get > patch-o-matic are availiable on http://www.netfilter.org
Thanks.
-- greg
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