Very critical: Memory leak in freeradius-1.1.6

[nikitha george]

Do you have any idea what kind of malloc/free implementation on our system
will work out in this scenario?

Thanks,
Nikitha

On 5/19/07, Alan DeKok <aland at deployingradius.com> wrote:
>
> nikitha george wrote:
> > So why is it happening in my case then? I can see all the requests gets
> > cleaned up ( log message was put) but still so much memory is consumed
> > by radiusd.
>
> When the server caches the requests, it uses memory to do that.  When
> it frees the requests, the memory does *not* get returned to the system.
> This is usually due to the "malloc/free" implementation on your system,
> and cannot be controlled by the server.
>
> > You want me post the huge log file..? I badly need this fix now..
> > Configuration wise i am using the default configuration except users and
> > clients entry added newly.
>
> If your server really is that busy, then it needs that much memory to
> ensure it maintains quality service.  If you make it use less memory,
> requests will be lost, and your network will suffer.
>
> Alan DeKok.
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