Memory leak on tinc

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Mon Jul 25 19:20:59 CEST 2016


On Mon, 25 Jul 2016 13:13:33 -0400
Heng Wang <jason.wangh на gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi guys,
> 
> Second question for me today:), really appreciate the help.
> I have been using tinc in a linux environment, due to our need, I
> kept it running all the time.(i.e. several months)
> Recently I found out the system's memory usage is gradually going
> higher and higher, and eventually
> triggering oom-killer in the system.
> After disabling process one by one, I identified tinc is the reason
> for the memory usage increment.
> (FYI I was checking committed_AS under /proc/meminfo)
> 
> I was running 1.0.24 on my linux machine. I did download 1.0.28 and
> observed the same thing.
> Does anyone else see the same thing?
> 
> Thank you.
> Heng

Can you identify that RSS for tinc process is growing without returning
memory to system? And if you have swap, look for swap usage too.
(fgrep VmSwap /proc/<tinc_pid>/status)

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