Re: Behavior of snmp_clone_pdu

Thanks for the reply.
It is on Linux and I have already tried valgrind. It is not reporting any
leaks or reachable memory during exit.

Thanks
Ramki

On Thu, Jul 5, 2018 at 7:24 PM Bart Van Assche <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 07/05/18 01:21, Ramki wrote:
> > We are implementing a SNMP agent using the NET SNMP library (C).
> > As part of the agent we need to handle the trap burst scenario (1250
> > traps per second for 75 seconds). We have added a memory based queue
> > that reads SNMP from the netsnmp_session callback function and
> > calls snmp_clone_pdu.
> > We see a very strange behavior. When there are around 100000 traps are
> > stored after calling  snmp_clone_pdu, we see the process memory growth
> > up to 3 GB.
> > The memory does not come down even after clearing the traps.
> >
> > Can somebody throw light on the net snmp memory handling?
>
> Are you developing for a platform that supports Valgrind? If so, have
> you tried to analyze the memory leaks with valgrind --leak-check=...?
>
> Bart.
>


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Ramki
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