Re: CARP node crashing reproducibly (4.3-stable)

On Mon, 2008-07-14 at 17:38 +0200, Henning Brauer wrote:
> > I have increased kern.maxclusters to gain more time for debugging of the
> > memory leak. However, all I could find out so far is that lots of mbufs
> > are allocated while there is no significant traffic to be handled
> > (remember the machine is the CARP backup). The machine crashes within 15
> > minutes after reboot.
>
> ok that is weird. icmp_error as called in pf_send_icmp does not m_free
> anything but the passed mbuf, and we now just bail if tghe allocation
> of it fails. so i have a hard time seeing this as related...

Yes, you are right. The leak we've seen is due to a kernel build we must
have introduced by using an unclean source tree. Problem solved.
However, the patch you've implemented in 1.610 of pf.c does fix the
crashes we've seen before.

Thanks a lot!

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