argus 3.0.0 rc.28 memory leaks

[Carter Bullard]

I doubt there is a memory leak.  What is your FarStatusInterval set to?
(thanks for the code)

Carter

On Aug 31, 2006, at 2:39 PM, Gabriel L. Somlo wrote:

> Carter,
>
> I've been running argus on a box with 1Gig of memory, and an
> Endace card to capture several hundred Mbps from our core. Argus
> becomes unresponsive in cca 20-30 minutes, because its memory
> image grows to the point where it starts swapping, and I can't
> get any more flow records from it beyond that point.
>
> I bumped the memory to two Gigs, and now it takes longer but it still
> maxes out eventually and argus has to be restarted.
>
> I've started looking for possible memory leaks, and the attached patch
> fixes the ones I found so far. I also fixed a couple of places where
> the code allowed a null pointer to be de-referenced (didn't see those
> being tickled in a real-life situation, but better safe than sorry :)
>
> Please apply, and I'll try to find more once these changes are in :)
>
> Thanks,
> Gabriel
> <argus-3.0.0.rc.28-mem.patch>

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