Stephen Hemminger wrote: > On Wed, 21 Apr 2004 12:00:07 -0500 > TC Hough <tchough@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > >>I set up a bridge for my network and I'm having some trouble. At first >>everything worked great, but after about 3 days of continuous bridging, >>my bridge machine died. Approximately once a second, the message: "br: >>memory squeeze!" would appear on the console. Keyboard input was mostly >>frozen, as well. I could switch virtual consoles, but I couldn't type. >>No traffic would pass through the bridge. When I rebooted, everything >>seemed fine. > > > > You have a memory leak in the kernel. What kernel and distro are you > using. Also, what kind of NIC's and other interfaces (tun, ppp, etc). > > Also, what is the state of the bridge? br showstp br0 > and the forwarding table? br showmacs br0 I agree it is probably a memory leak, but it is *possible* to get this error if you just run out of available memory. I have been able to reproduce this type of error by setting my send/receive packet socket buffers very high and then flooding 200 connections with traffic, for example. (I had a 256MB RAM machine) You might want to make sure that your netdev-backlog settings are not too big, for example. Thanks, Ben -- Ben Greear <greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com
