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by **Pierre Imbau** » Fri, 03 Dec 1999 04:00:00

Im 2.7 on pentium, with only 64 megs ram now.
I witness a funny problem: the mibiisa process seem to leak memory.
I observe it thru top. uses 1 more meg every 2 hours or so.
I dont directly use it, dunno who needs it on the machine (workstation,
on a small network).
Someone saw this already? Someone got an idea?
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by **Stefan Berglu** » Fri, 03 Dec 1999 04:00:00

> Im 2.7 on pentium, with only 64 megs ram now.
> I witness a funny problem: the mibiisa process seem to leak memory.
> I observe it thru top. uses 1 more meg every 2 hours or so.
> I dont directly use it, dunno who needs it on the machine (workstation,
> on a small network).
> Someone saw this already? Someone got an idea?

Yes I have noticed something like this on my U5/2.7 machine at home. I
can't say that I saw it in this detail but after being up for a couple
of days it filled up the memory and swap...

mibiisa is part of the snmp thingys, my guess is that it is some remote
system monitoring tool but I havn't really bothered to look it up.
I see no reason to use it on a standalone machine anyway so I just
disabled it.
Look in /etc/init.d/init.snmpdx how the if statement is built, make
sure that it isn't true or just delete it from the rc?.d directorys.

It might be that it fills up with events and noone ever reads from it.
Which means that there is a bug, it really shouldn't fill up all
memory and swap under any conditions.

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