dhcpcd-discuss

1 million routes install/removal:
sharpd@janelle ~/dhcpcd> ps -eo rss,pid,euser,args:100 | grep dhcpcd
 1892  8413 root     src/dhcpcd
  656  8468 sharpd   grep --color=auto dhcpcd

This looks awesome, repeated installs/removals and we are at the same
level of memory consumption.

donald

On Mon, Mar 4, 2019 at 7:47 PM Roy Marples <roy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 04/03/2019 21:43, Roy Marples wrote:
> > Lowering memory usage more we can do this - move if_initrt to the top of
> > rt_build. This is tricky as from memory some parts of dhcpcd rely on it
> > being there outside of route building. We'll need to double check and
> > fix these places.
> > Once that's done we can then dispose of kroutes at the end of rt_build.
> > If that works, kroutes can be removed from the global context.
> >
> > But that's for another day.
>
> Well, I was wondering what really needs kroutes around and it turns out
> I think it can be removed safely.
> I've created a new branch, rbtree-memory with the prior patch in and the
> above done.
> It seems to work and valgrind doesn't report any leaks.
>
> How is the memory usage looking now with your million routes?
> If it's lower, could you add -DRT_FREE_ROUTE_TABLE to your CPPFLAGS,
> clean and compile, and see how that then affects matters?
>
> Roy