memory leak patch request for bind 9.11.3
Summary
Current stable version9.11.3 is experiencing significant memory leak. Release notes on your website indicate that this bug was identified as rndc memory leak and addressed in your early deployment version bind9.12.1 Installed 9.12.1 on my test environment and confirmed that memory leak issue is indeed addressed, however I am now experiencing a new bug with 9.12.1 which was reported in https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/57535
Requesting memory leak patch to be downstream to current stable version. Or if you can provide me with the patch to apply it to my system
Steps to reproduce
Please install your current stable version 9.11.3 and load about 500k zones. To reproduce memory leak at faster rate please run a rndc config/reloads on a frequent rate
What is the current bug behavior?
(What actually happens.) memory leak
What is the expected correct behavior?
(What you should see instead.) no memory leak (see your early deployment-version or version 9.9.9)
Relevant configuration files
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same config file is used in 4 different versions and confirmed memory leak got introduced with your 9.10.x series and fixed in your early deployment version 9.12.1
bind9.9.9 - no memory leak bind9.10.0 - memory leak bind9.11.2 - memory leak bind9.11.3 - memory leak bind9.12.1 - no memory leak
Relevant logs and/or screenshots
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Possible fixes
(If you can, link to the line of code that might be responsible for the problem.) http://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind9/9.12.1/RELEASE-NOTES-bind-9.12.1.html
" rndc reload could cause named to leak memory if it was invoked before the zone loading actions from a previous rndc reload command were completed. [RT #47076] "