BIRD memory usage

Ondrej Zajicek santiago at crfreenet.org
Tue Sep 6 18:05:14 CEST 2016


On Mon, Sep 05, 2016 at 03:21:40PM +0100, Justin Cattle wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 
> A colleague of mine reported a memory usage issue with the bird daemon last
> year, which resulted in a request for a core dump, but we never followed it
> up.
> I'd like to re-open this discussion and see if anything can be done to fix
> it.
> 
> I'll provide some information regarding a production environment, where the
> problem is most obvious.  But any further details and diagnostics will have
> to come from our lab environment.
> Please note, in production we mostly run 1.5, but in the lab we are on 1.6,
> however we see the same symptoms in both environments on both versions.

Hi

One question - is your 1.5.0 patched? Because your config contains
option 'merge paths on', which is new in 1.6.0.

Or does the problem appear even without this option?

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