[Pkg-net-snmp-devel] Bug#420876: memory leaks with snmpd on amd64/xen

[Ingo Juergensmann]

Package: snmpd
Version: 5.2.3-7
Severity: normal


snmpd seems to have a memory leak problem. 'top' reports:

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
24823 snmp      15   0  155m  47m 1392 S  0.0 37.4   0:30.18 snmpd

This seems to happen with all installations of snmpd 5.2.3-7. On one of our
Xen VMs we still have an older version (5.2.3-4) and 'top' reports for this: 

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
12837 snmp      15   0 27236 5080 2212 S  0.0  0.5   0:48.18 snmpd

So, apparently the memory leak was introduced in some newer version of
snmpd. Version 5.2.3-7 on i386 seems to be fine, though. Therefore I suspect
a problem with amd64. 

Regards, 
Ingo

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-2-xen-amd64
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages snmpd depends on:
# COLUMNS=72 dpkg -l | grep -e adduser -e debconf -e libc6 -e libsensors3 -e
libsnmp9 -e libwrap0
ii  adduser        3.102          Add and remove users and groups
ii  debconf        1.5.11         Debian configuration management system
ii  debconf-i18n   1.5.11         full internationalization support for debcon
ii  libc6          2.3.6.ds1-13   GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libc6-dev      2.3.6.ds1-13   GNU C Library: Development Libraries and Hea
ii  libsensors3    2.10.1-3       library to read temperature/voltage/fan sens
ii  libsnmp9       5.2.3-7        NET SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol
ii  libwrap0       7.6.dbs-13     Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers library
ii  po-debconf     1.0.8          manage translated Debconf templates files

snmpd recommends no packages.

-- debconf information:
  snmpd/upgradefrom36:
  snmpd/upgradefrom521: