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| author | Ondrej Zajicek <santiago@crfreenet.org> | 2022-11-09 21:09:16 +0100 |
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| committer | Ondrej Zajicek <santiago@crfreenet.org> | 2022-11-09 21:54:45 +0100 |
| commit | 371eb49043d225d2bab8149187b813a14b4b86d2 (patch) | |
| tree | 4b25595f3d68b2d0a64cbfbf2ab2987e9b8b163e /doc | |
| parent | 84545a26cc3f7ce68408a663c1ad4a50edccdacc (diff) | |
Conf: Free stored old config before parsing new one
BIRD keeps a previous (old) configuration for the purpose of undo. The
existing code frees it after a new configuration is successfully parsed
during reconfiguration. That causes memory usage spikes as there are
temporarily three configurations (old, current, and new). The patch
changes it to free the old one before parsing the new one (as user
already requested a new config). The disadvantage is that undo is
not available after failed reconfiguration.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/bird.sgml | 5 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/bird.sgml b/doc/bird.sgml index c78b8300..47848f82 100644 --- a/doc/bird.sgml +++ b/doc/bird.sgml @@ -1173,6 +1173,11 @@ This argument can be omitted if there exists only a single instance. restarted otherwise. Changes in filters usually lead to restart of affected protocols. + The previous configuration is saved and the user can switch back to it + with <ref id="cli-configure-undo" name="configure undo"> command. The + old saved configuration is released (even if the reconfiguration attempt + fails due to e.g. a syntax error). + If <cf/soft/ option is used, changes in filters does not cause BIRD to restart affected protocols, therefore already accepted routes (according to old filters) would be still propagated, but new routes would be |