On 6/1/05, Michael Mee <mm2001 at pobox dot com> wrote:
> We have an installation with DSLExtreme that (for some reason!) has a
> WAN DHCP (PPPoE) lease of 5 mins or so.  After several months of
> operation, the box WAN port locked up and the last entries in the log were:
> 
> May 30 13:00:01         kernel: pid 102 (dhclient), uid 0, was killed: out of
> swap space
> May 30 12:58:26         dhclient: bound to 72.25.101.7 -- renewal in 132 seconds.
> May 30 12:58:26         dhclient: DHCPACK from 72.25.101.1
> May 30 12:58:26         dhclient: DHCPREQUEST on sis1 to 72.25.101.1 port 67
> 
> (lots of similar DHCP log entries).
> 
> This was with 1.2b7.  Does anyone know enough to suggest what may have
> gone wrong?  From my limited knowledge it would appear the dhcp client
> went bellyup, presumably from a small memory leak.
> 

Does look like a memory leak, or perhaps a consequence of such a
ridiculously short lease time.  The "out of swap space" means you ran
out of RAM - m0n0wall has no swap.

I'd upgrade to 1.2b8.  The 2511MP+ will work fine, and 4.11 will use a
lot less RAM than 5.3, so it'll at least give it some more breathing
room.

There's no telling if you'll hit it again, but it would be interesting to know.

-Chris