(KAME-snap 8820) Re: Weird memory exhaustion with FreeBSD 4.10-STABLE

[Pekka Savola]

On Thu, 30 Sep 2004, JINMEI Tatuya / [ISO-2022-JP] $B?@L at C#:H(B wrote:
> > Unfortunately, I can't.  The when my SSH session froze, and the 6to4
> > SSH sessions as well, my first instinct was 'oh, crap', and knee-jerk
> > push of reset button (because the box has no keyboard attached). Sorry
> > for being inprecise.
> 
> Okay, I just found a bug that only happens when ip6.rtexpire is 0.
> Please try the following patch (with rtexpire=0).

Well, the box no longer crashed at least, so I'd guess it works. :-)

Btw, is there any particular reason why net.inet.ip.rtexpire
automatically dynamically re-adjusts itself (here, it's typically
around 10 or 12), while net.inet6.ip6.rtexpire does not?

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