[strongSwan] Memory leak in charon?

[Andreas Steffen]

Hi Michael,

I'm not aware of any memory leak that we fixed. You could run charon
compiled with the --enable-leak-detective configure option and check
for any memory leaks when you stop the daemon.

Regards

Andreas

On 05.08.22 09:46, Michael Schwartzkopff wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 
> we have a strongswan 5.9.5 installed on a embedded device.
> 
> We see a increase of memory usage of the charon process of about 200 
> kB/hour.
> 
> The leak might be somehow connected to rekeying since the leak rate was 
> reduced with the rekeying rate. Also perhaps to logging, since we 
> reduced verbosity to decrease leak rate.
> 
> 
> As far as I read the changelog, no memory leak was fixed in 5.9.6 and 
> 5.9.7.
> 
> 
> Any idea how to proceed to pin down the cause of the leak? 200 kB/h 
> impacts the embedded device.
> 
> 
> 
> Mit freundlichen Grüßen,
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