On Tue, 14 Aug 2007 20:00:15 +0200
Tobias Diedrich <[email protected]> wrote:
> Eric Dumazet wrote:
>
> > Tobias Diedrich <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I suspect I'm seeing a slow dst cache leakage on one of my servers.
> > > The server in question (oni) regularly needs to be rebooted, because
> > > it loses network connectivity. However, netconsole and syslog shows that the
> > > machine is still running and the kernel complains about "dst cache
> > > overflow".
> > >
> > > I have since installed a monitoring script, which stores the output of
> > > both "ip route ls cache | fgrep cache | wc -l" and the 'entries' value
> > > of /proc/net/stat/rt_cache (as suggested in
> > > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg02107.html)
> > > and produces a nice rrd graph:
> > >
> > > http://uguu.de/~ranma/route-month-oni.png
> > > So entries is growing more or less constantly, while the number of
> > > active routes (not visible on the graph due to being too small) is
> > > relatively constant.
> > >
> > > Comparing this to another host running the exact same kernel:
> > > http://uguu.de/~ranma/route-month-ari.png
> > > Here cached_routes and entries barely differ at all.
> > >
> > > The funny thing is, both hosts are running the exact same kernel
> > > and use more or less the same iptables rules.
> > >
> > > So I'm not sure what would cause the dst cache to leak only on host
> > > oni?
> > >
> >
> > Could you send the result of these commands on oni and ari ?
> >
> > ip route ls
> > grep . /proc/sys/net/ipv4/route/*
>
> Sure.
>
> AFAICS the only visible difference is gc_thresh, which is probably
> double the size on oni since oni has double the amount of memory
> (512MB for oni vs. 256MB for ari).
You might try to boot oni adding this to kernel commandline : rhash_entries=2047
so that oni has the same route cache hashtable, and see if it changes anything.
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