Re: (PM) Memory Leak -- PM2E 20 + 5 BRI

Vernon Burke (vburke@skow.net)
Thu, 11 Mar 1999 19:04:16 -0500

You know you really should upgrade to 4MB, why don't
you do it? It's not as if 4MB of memory was an expensive
proposition. Any fairly loaded PM2e should have more than
the original 1MB. If the PM needs 4MB of memory and you're
running out with 1MB, is that a "memory leak"?

Vern

----- Original Message -----
From: Mark Embrich <membrich_ebs@hotmail.com>
To: <portmaster-users@livingston.com>
Sent: Thursday, March 11, 1999 6:55 PM
Subject: (PM) Memory Leak -- PM2E 20 + 5 BRI

>Hello Livingston Gurus,
>
>We are experiencing a memory leak with one of our PM2s.
>This is not affecting any of our other 5 PM2s.
>
>I did search through the archives and saw that others have reported a
>memory leak when ISDN lines go "NO-SERVICE". I haven't been watching
>this PM2 very closely, but I have not seen any of the ISDN lines go
>"NO-SERVICE" lately.
>
>2 weeks ago this unit had 108 bytes available, users could not log in.
>Rebooted, now after 14 days, we are down to 10,236 available. (This
>unit is mainly for contingency purposes, so it has very low
>utilization).
>
>This unit is running ComOS 3.7.2:
>Livingston PortMaster PM-2e ComOS 3.7.2
>System uptime is 14 days 5 hours 28 minutes
>
>Here's a sho mem:
>System memory 1048576 bytes - 1038340 used, 10236 available
>2832:1 4240:3 96:1 1152:2 640:2 144:0 2048:1 64:0 112:0 80:2 176:8
>128:13 272:4
>16:88 32:15 160:3 48:8
>System nbufs 1400 - 243 used, 1157 available
>
>(I know, we really should upgrade to 4MB :-))
>
>Is there a fix for the memory leak?
>If not, what have others done to work around this problem?
>-- Just schedule reboots of the PM2?
>-- Monitor ISDN lines? Alert if they go NO-SERVICE?
>
>Thank you for your help,
>Mark Embrich
>EBS On Line
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