Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 10 Mar 1997 00:08:47 +0000 (GMT) | From | Matthew Kirkwood <> | Subject | Re: ISS patch problem? |
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On Sun, 9 Mar 1997, David S. Miller wrote:
> > Having just browsed ISS-test4, do I read it right that there was a > > generic memory leak in a _load_ of ethernet card drivers whenever a > > transmit timeout occurred?? I have plenty of transmit timeouts in > > my logs :-| > > It was a rare occurrance, and only really happened if the network card > never interrupted the kernel for the last transmission for several > _seconds_, this is rare in practice so I would not be concerned, you'd > know if you ever hit this because netstat would indicate numerous TCP > connections stuck in CLOSE, it took a load of around 230 for me to hit > it over 100baseT on the Sparc.
Interesting, since we have had two CLOSE_WAIT sockets (wasn't it more??) for around a fortnight now.
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