[nsd-users] Memory leak from triggered by notifies?

[Jelte Jansen]

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Jelte Jansen wrote:
> Shane Kerr wrote:
>> On Jul 8, 2008, at 14:34 +0200, Ondřej Surý wrote:
>>
>>>> We see this on both FreeBSD (with 64-bit NSD) and Linux (with both
>>>> 32-bit
>>>> and 64-bit NSD).
>>> You forgot to mention what version(s) do you use.
>> Sorry, this is with 3.0.7 (in production, answering external queries)
>> and 3.1.0 (lab testing only, no queries at all now).
>>
> 
> Hmm, you may be right, though it doesn't seem to be in the notification
> code itself; just a low refresh rate seems to make memory usage grow by
> four bytes if a zone is actually changed.
> 

Ok, as it turns out, the big problem was that nsd-patch wasn't called
often enough. However, I actually did find a small memory leak in a part
of the newer code;

If nsd is compiled with NSEC3 support (by default in the latest release
3.1.0), there is a small memory leak in the slave when a non-NSEC3 zone
is updated.

Attached is a patch for people running into this. Alternatively, you
could use --disable-nsec3 as a build-time configure option. The patch is
also in trunk revision 2744 for people who are using subversion, and
will be in the next patch release (3.1.1).

Jelte
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