On Tue February 11 2003 9:55 am, Kevin Anderson wrote: > Just a note to everyone, IPcop is trying to track down a suspected memory > leak. > > They suspect it to be either in Squid or Snort. > > Obviously, it can have a serious affect on smaller machines. Several > people on the newsgroup running IPcop on a 486 w/16 Megs RAM are finding > they need to reboot about twice a week. My box has been up for a while > now, and there have been no problems, but I have alot of RAM. > > Just a heads up. Keep an eye on it if you're using IPcop in production. > Alternately, if you have a box that has been running for a few weeks, take > a look and see if you can see anything abnormal. If so, I'm sure they'd > appreciate it if you could forward it to their mailing list. > > Kev.
I sure would like to hear more about this. WHAT news group Kevin Anderson? And how could Squid (proxy) or Snort (reporting program) be responsible for any of these supposed allegations?
