Hi, It looks like snmpd buffers invalid udp requests on it's port instead of properly throwing them away. Using udpsic to throw about 5 minutes of garbage traffic at port, snmpd's memory image grows from a slim 5k to a fat 380Megabytes.
typical snmpd at startup: PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME CPU COMMAND 31175 root 15 0 5212 5212 1684 S 0.0 0.4 0:00 0 snmpd snmpd after a few minutes with udpsic (note cpu usage -- udpsic is no longer running at this point). PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME CPU COMMAND 7542 root 25 0 380M 169M 488 R 95.8 45.4 13:00 0 snmpd The command to set invalid requests is used udpsic -s rand -d 172.16.240.34,161 -F27 Is this a known bug? Do we have a fix? We are running 5.0.9 on linux. Thanks, FT ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php _______________________________________________ Net-snmp-coders mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/net-snmp-coders
