On Thu, 17 Jan 2002 17:08:57 +1100 (EST) Steve Kieu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hi, > > kppp has its known memory leak bug but I am not sure > if there is any update / fix or work around this bug > for Mandrake 8.1 Not that I know of... of course, someone has to believe there's a leak and if so, find it and fix it... kppp runs 2 processes, 1 as user and 1 as root; it's the user one that leaks... I was doing some testing today and discovered this tidbit (not yet confirmed)... 1. Pushed some traffic across a ppp link and saw the memory creeping up. 2. dropped power to the modem; gives error 16 (modem hangup) 3. requested details; got complaint that "Debug" was not on. Saved the stats which showed 2000099+3462408 bytes transfered. Enabled debug. 4. Restored modem power and restarted link. Debug is now recording traffic. Interesting that the rate of memory use is virtually identical whether debug is on or not... On the surface, it appears that while debug is off, kppp likely still records all the traffic. Turning debug on gives you the ability to dump the packet contents... BUT... if debug is *off* and no packets are dumped; *why* should kppp still log the traffic...? (my main suspicion at the moment) HTH, Pierre
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