The fact that noone else is having this problem points in the direction of your 'ARM based embedded system' or the ethernet drivers used therein.
On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 07:01:58PM +0100, Tino Keitel wrote: > Hi folks, > > I have a bridge that containes of 2 Ethernet interfaces. When using > nttcp to test the throughput of the bridge, the kernel will use more > and more memory. This way, all available memory will be used after a > few thousand packets and I get a lousy performance and the bridge > function is very stagnant. I can see a large amount (up to 5000) of > 4096 byte buffers allocated in /proc/slabinfo (the size-4096 line). I > don't see a reason why a bridge should be that memory hungry, so I > think that there is a memory leak somewhere. Is this a known behaviour? > The kernel version is 2.4.18, which is the latest version available for > this hardware (ARM based embedded system). > > Regards, > Tino > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > dipl.-inf. Innominate Security Technologies AG > software engineer networking people > tel: +49.30.6392-3308 http://www.innominate.com/ > _______________________________________________ > Bridge mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.math.leidenuniv.nl/mailman/listinfo/bridge _______________________________________________ Bridge mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.math.leidenuniv.nl/mailman/listinfo/bridge
