[Dnsmasq-discuss] dnsmasq consuming more memory

[Geert Stappers]

On Fri, Mar 11, 2022 at 03:50:46PM +0530, shashikumar Shashi wrote:
> Hi Simon Kelley,

Hello readers,
(either MailingList archive readers or ML subscribers)
 

> dnsmasq is running continuously for around five months, we had around 150
> clients. After 5 months dnsmasq got killed by the kernel, due to cgroup
> memory limit.
> It utilizes around 2GB of memory.
> Are there any known issues, we are using 2.80 dnsmasq version?
 
https://thekelleys.org.uk/gitweb/?p=dnsmasq.git;a=blob;f=CHANGELOG;hb=HEAD


> kernel: [ pid ]   uid  tgid total_vm   rss nr_ptes nr_pmds swapents oom_score_adj name
> kernel: [16698]     0 16698     6350  3088      15       3        0             0 dnsmasq
> kernel: [16717]     0 16717     6350  1219      10       3        0             0 dnsmasq
> kernel: [16751]     0 16751     1326   947       5       3        0             0 python
> kernel: Memory cgroup out of memory: Kill process 16698 (dnsmasq) score 5 or sacrifice child
> kernel: Killed process 16717 (dnsmasq) total-vm:25400kB, anon-rss:4876kB, file-rss:0kB, shmem-rss
> kernel: oom_reaper: reaped process 16717 (dnsmasq), now anon-rss:0kB, file-rss:0kB, shmem-rss:0kB
> systemd[1]: dnsmasq_vrf at swns.service: Unit entered failed state.
> systemd[1]: dnsmasq_vrf at swns.service: Failed with result 'signal'.
> 
> 
> Thanks,

You are welcome.


> Shashi


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Geert Stappers
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