On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 23:33:22 -0700 Robert Scott <rbscott@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Two other recent reports are: > > 1. Buggy applications that hold packets in their input queue forever, > > and/or netfilters. The socket buffer's contain a reference for > > packets in flight. > > that may be it, but I am not sure which queue you are talking about, > but there is an application that is using the netfiler ip_queue to > queue packets to user space. in this application, these packets can > be held in user space for extended periods of time (up to 30/60 > seconds), and then they are either dropped or released. Could this > possibly be creating a problem? That could be it, ask Patrick McHardy, Harald, or netfilter-devel
