On Monday 14 March 2005 23:53, Kimmo Koivisto wrote: > Hello > > I have experienced dst cache overflow errors with three FC3 firewalls under > medium load. > > It seems that the cache leak is now found > (http://oss.sgi.com/archives/netdev/2005-01/msg01367.html) and there is a > fix for that: > > ===== net/ipv4/ip_output.c 1.74 vs edited ===== > --- 1.74/net/ipv4/ip_output.c 2005-01-25 01:40:10 +01:00 > +++ edited/net/ipv4/ip_output.c 2005-01-30 18:54:43 +01:00 > @@ -389,6 +389,7 @@ > to->priority = from->priority; > to->protocol = from->protocol; > to->security = from->security; > + dst_release(to->dst); > to->dst = dst_clone(from->dst); > to->dev = from->dev; > > I think that vanilla kernel 2.6.11 contains this fix, but does any > FC-kernels have this fix included? If not, does anybody know is this fix > going to be included to the new FC-kernels? > I just checked this, original 2.6.9 FC3-kernel did not have this patch, newest test update 2.6.11-1.7_FC3 has. Regards Kimmo Koivisto
