[tg] Possible mem leak?

[Barbara Denny]

Hi,

Just wanted to let TG users to know that the
TG log file on the Linux server looks like
it was getting too large. There is a command to 
make multiple log files if you are gathering lots
of data (see the user manual).

barbara

--- "Rafter, Marcel" <MRafter@Vianetworks.com> wrote:
> 
> Hello all,
> I am using TG on three servers, two FreeBSD and one
> Linux server. TG is configure to send and receive a
> number of TCP protocols between the three servers to
> simulate a real network. The Linux server is doing
> the most work running 8 TCP sinks and sending 16 TCP
> sources. The sources are set to run every twelve
> hours using cron while the sinks run all the time.
> The problem is after a couple of days the Linux
> server runs out of memory and freezes. It has to be
> rebooted to make the server useable again. The TG
> program has been moved from one Linux server to
> another so I do not think the problem is hardware. I
> started using the Linux binaries but then I compiled
> the source code to see if that solved the problem,
> but no. Below is output from syslog. I have had no
> problems on the FreeBSD servers. Can you please
> help? What can I try?
> 
> thanks,
> Marcel
> 
> 
> Jan 13 22:33:13 war-test-svr kernel: Out of Memory:
> Killed process 2233 (tg).
> Jan 13 22:33:44 war-test-svr last message repeated 4
> times
> Jan 13 22:34:32 war-test-svr last message repeated 2
> times
> Jan 13 22:35:35 war-test-svr last message repeated 2
> times
> Jan 13 22:36:33 war-test-svr kernel: Out of Memory:
> Killed process 2233 (tg).
> Jan 13 22:46:15 war-test-svr last message repeated
> 142 times
> Jan 13 22:46:15 war-test-svr kernel: VM: killing
> process tg
> Jan 13 22:47:03 war-test-svr kernel: Out of Memory:
> Killed process 2234 (tg).
> Jan 13 22:48:25 war-test-svr last message repeated 7
> times
> Jan 13 22:49:28 war-test-svr last message repeated 2
> times
> Jan 13 22:51:13 war-test-svr kernel: Out of Memory:
> Killed process 2234 (tg).
> Jan 13 23:00:24 war-test-svr kernel: Out of Memory:
> Killed process 2234 (tg).
> Jan 13 23:06:18 war-test-svr kernel: Out of Memory:
> Killed process 2234 (tg).
> Jan 13 23:15:03 war-test-svr kernel: Out of Memory:
> Killed process 2234 (tg).
> 
> 
> 
> Marcel Rafter
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