I'm using 5.5.1.pre2.
On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 4:26 AM, Bart Van Assche <bvanass...@acm.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 7:07 PM, Adam Mendlik <amend...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> I've written a Windows service which consumes an inbound data stream and
>> sends out SNMP traps using netsnmp.lib.
>>
>> During service initialization I call:
>> snmp_sess_init(&session);
>> session.version = SNMP_VERSION_1;
>> init_snmp("snmpapp");
>> ... and set session.peername, session.community, and session.community_len
>> SOCK_STARTUP;
>> setup_engineID(NULL, NULL);
>> snmpv3_generate_engineID(&session.contextEngineIDLen);
>> ss = snmp_add(&session, netsnmp_transport_open_client("snmptrap",
>> session.peername), NULL, NULL);
>>
>> At service termination I call:
>> snmp_close(ss);
>> snmp_shutdown("snmpapp");
>> SOCK_CLEANUP;
>>
>>
>> But while the service is running, it is constantly building new PDU's and
>> calling snmp_send(ss, pdu) passing the same session pointer created at
>> initialization. I have found that every call to snmp_send() allocates a
>> little more memory and never releases it. I confirmed this by commenting out
>> the call to snmp_send() and adding a call to snmp_free_pdu(pdu). In other
>> words, my program just builds PDU's and then throws them away. In this setup
>> (obviously just for testing) memory use stays perfectly flat.
>>
>> My question is: is there a reason why snmp_send() is leaking memory, how
>> do I fix it, or should I be using a different function in this scenario?
>>
>
> Which version of the Net-SNMP libraries are you using ?
>
> Bart.
>
>
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