Re: [ns] memory leak problem

[George Riley <riley@cc.gatech.edu>]

What TCP Agents are you using?  I'm also fighting a leak when using
FullTcpNewreno.  The number of packets allocated (with "new") keeps
growing unboundedly, indicating that somewhere some packets are not being
freed.  When I find a fix for this, I'll drop you a note.

George

					
			-George F. Riley (riley@cc.gatech.edu)

On Tue, 14 Nov 2000, Milind Dilip Kopikare wrote:

> Hi.
>   I am trying to simulate 1000 TCP flows sending packets over a 100Mb link
> to 1000 TCP receivers at the other end. The topology is as shown.
> 
>     s1---------|		  |--------r1
>     s2---------|		  |--------r2
>     :----------|int1----------int2|--------:
>     :----------|	100Mb	  |--------:
>     s1000------|		  |--------r1000
> 
> Each of the sources transmit at 100Mb so the link between int1 and int2 is
> always full. However I am running into memory leak problems. I tries using
> Eric Weigle's fix of "delete [] he_old" in heap_insert() in scheduler.cc.
> But this hasn't solved the problem. Would anyone be able to help as to why
> this memory leak is taking place?
> 
> Regards,
> Milind Kopikare
> 
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