Re: Memory leak in 2.6.11-rc1?

On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 12:33:26PM -0800, David S. Miller wrote:

So they won't be listed in /proc/net/rt_cache (since they've been
removed from the lookup table) but they will be accounted for in
/proc/net/stat/rt_cache until the final release is done on the
routing cache object and it can be completely freed up.

Do you happen to be using IPV6 in any way by chance?

Yes.  Someone suggested this evening that there may have been a recent
change to do with some IPv6 refcounting which may have caused this
problem.  Is that something you can confirm?

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