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From: Baptiste Jonglez <baptiste@bitsofnetworks.org>
To: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Cc: WireGuard mailing list <wireguard@lists.zx2c4.com>
Subject: Re: Memleak with 0.0.20171221-5 on Debian stretch
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2018 14:17:59 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180213131758.GA5242@lud.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHmME9pvBg3OHLwun3uqdoCqmQBxxmwh1y2jxWUcdOKyZynNsA@mail.gmail.com>

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On 12-02-18, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
> Hey Baptiste,
> 
> On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 8:42 AM, Baptiste Jonglez
> <baptiste@bitsofnetworks.org> wrote:
> > Actually, now that I talk about it, it's not 100% true: on this system,
> > there is a second wireguard interface that is not currently used (it's
> > provisionned to connect a future router that is not yet deployed).
> >
> > The interesting part: this interface has a single peer which has no
> > endpoint but a persistent keepalive.

It seems to be a valid hypothesis: after I disabled persistent keepalives
on this interface (delete interface, remove persistent keepalive from
configuration, create interface again), memory usage has stopped growing:

  https://files.polyno.me/tmp/memory-leak-wireguard-annotated.png

> That's a super useful observation! I'm guessing this will fix it:
> https://git.zx2c4.com/WireGuard/commit/?id=c5c22fb9bad1807a612b6055e0049d68f4600605

Nice, thanks!  I'm looking forward to testing the next release then.

> I'm still analyzing everything to find other places where I might have
> missed something, but hopefully the above does it.

Baptiste

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  reply	other threads:[~2018-02-13 13:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-02-11 13:48 Baptiste Jonglez
2018-02-11 18:20 ` Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2018-02-11 18:43   ` Baptiste Jonglez
2018-02-12  0:23     ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2018-02-12  7:35       ` Baptiste Jonglez
2018-02-12  7:42         ` Baptiste Jonglez
2018-02-12 11:04           ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2018-02-13 13:17             ` Baptiste Jonglez [this message]
2018-02-18 20:39               ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2018-02-22  7:45                 ` Baptiste Jonglez
2018-02-12  3:34     ` Daniel Kahn Gillmor

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