On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 01:36:45PM -0500, Taylor, Grant wrote: > Very interesting. This makes me think that there is a kernel routing > caching type issue. I expect that if this is indeed the case there could > (or should) easily be a way to flush said cache or adjust a garbage > collection interval. This might need to be (summarized and) cross posted > to a kernel developers mailing list to get their thoughts on it. i'm pretty sure there's a known memory leak related to the kernel route cache in the 2.6 kernel (don't recall kernel version the OP has), that should have been fixed in 2.6.11. -j -- "Susan Sarandon: I'm Susan Sarandon. Most of you know me as Tim Robbins' mother, but actually I'm his wife!" --Family Guy