On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 04:49:41PM -0500, Michael Vallaly wrote: > > Hi, > > I recently had an interesting problem surrounding socket option buffers > and its use in Bird on Linux 3.6 which I hope someone could shed some > light on. > > And after digging around in the Linux system it seems I was > running out of socket option memory buffers (duh!). > Thusly I was able to "fix" this by issuing: > > <snip> > echo 40960 > /proc/sys/net/core/optmem_max # Defaults to 20480 > </snip> > > Is this expected? Any insight on how to properly size the socket option > memory buffers used by bird? Is this some sort of a socket buffer leak?
I have no idea. This seems like an internal problem of Linux kernel. /proc/sys/net/core/optmem_max AFAIK specifies ancillary buffer size *per socket*, and MD5sum uses just perhaps some 100s of bytes. -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Ondrej 'SanTiago' Zajicek (email: [email protected]) OpenPGP encrypted e-mails preferred (KeyID 0x11DEADC3, wwwkeys.pgp.net) "To err is human -- to blame it on a computer is even more so."
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