Garth Meisel said: > 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?
Any program could have a memory leak in it. It's also important to note that suspecting a memory leak in a program is not an allegation, that word has negative connotations to it. They are just trying to track down bugs.
