(PM) Memory Leak -- PM2E 20 + 5 BRI (fwd)

MegaZone (megazone@megazone.org)
Sat, 13 Mar 1999 18:11:28 -0800 (PST)

Once upon a time Mark Embrich shaped the electrons to say...
>We are experiencing a memory leak with one of our PM2s.
>This is not affecting any of our other 5 PM2s.

I don't think this is ncessarily a memory leak. Overtime the PM will
allocate 'shelfs' in memory. That's this stuff:

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

They are allocated as needed - and are *kept*. So that it doesn't have
to keep reallocating. So the memory shown immediately after a boot is
not representative. You may just need more than 1MB - with ISDN that is
likely, if you are also running OSPF then almost definitely. You could save
some room if you disable any modules you are not using - like IPX, SNMP, etc.

>Rebooted, now after 14 days, we are down to 10,236 available. (This
>unit is mainly for contingency purposes, so it has very low

Anything less that 50K free calls for a memory upgrade. It sounds like you
are cutting things close to start with.

-MZ

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