On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 3:47 PM, Toni Mueller  wrote:

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> as of today (I didn't notice it earlier), I see this problem on one of

> my machines:

>

> # netstat -rnf inet

> netstat: sysctl of routing table: Cannot allocate memory

"netstat -r" dumps the routing table by calling sysctl() twice, once

to get the size of the table so that it can allocate enough memory to

hold it, and then a second call to actually fill it in.  That error

means the routing table grew between the two calls, so the second call

could return the entire table.
> Any idea about how to combat this, please?
The code will need to be changed to

a) add a fudge factor to the size that was returned, and

b) retry the pair of calls if the second returns ENOMEM
I'll try to send you a patch this weekend.
Philip Guenther