From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from jazzband.ncsc.mil (jazzband.ncsc.mil [144.51.5.4]) by tycho.ncsc.mil (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h5ALWfI4020912 for ; Tue, 10 Jun 2003 17:32:41 -0400 (EDT) Received: from jazzband.ncsc.mil (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by jazzband.ncsc.mil with ESMTP id h5ALWU5e007566 for ; Tue, 10 Jun 2003 21:32:30 GMT Received: from tartarus.telenet-ops.be (tartarus.telenet-ops.be [195.130.132.46]) by jazzband.ncsc.mil with ESMTP id h5ALWT92007557 for ; Tue, 10 Jun 2003 21:32:29 GMT Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 23:32:06 +0200 From: Kurt Roeckx To: Russell Coker Cc: selinux@tycho.nsa.gov Subject: Re: Weird problem using latest kernel. Message-ID: <20030610213206.GA4837@ping.be> References: <20030608114617.GA4456@ping.be> <200306082325.13088.russell@coker.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <200306082325.13088.russell@coker.com.au> Sender: owner-selinux@tycho.nsa.gov List-Id: selinux@tycho.nsa.gov On Sun, Jun 08, 2003 at 11:25:13PM +1000, Russell Coker wrote: > On Sun, 8 Jun 2003 21:46, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > > I've been using 2.4.21-rc2, without patch, for a while without > > problems. Then I switched to 2.4.21-rc7 with the patch for rc6 > > found on http://www.coker.com.au/selinux/kern/ > > > > Using that, the first night something must have gone wrong using > > updatedb, it was still running when I got back home that night, > > which is ore than 12 hours after it starts. You could hear the > > hard disk going, the load was around 8, it was very unresponsive. > > I just rebooted it. > > I believe that the bug is in the main kernel code. I have not reported this > to the linux-kernel list because I don't have enough hard evidence, and I > expect that lots of other people have discovered the same bug. If you choose > to post to linux-kernel then please feel free to quote my message or provide > the URL for the SE Linux list archives. Just for update, the current uptime is just over 4 days now without any problems at all running on a plain 2.4.21-rc7. I really believe the problem is in the patch. Kurt -- This message was distributed to subscribers of the selinux mailing list. If you no longer wish to subscribe, send mail to majordomo@tycho.nsa.gov with the words "unsubscribe selinux" without quotes as the message.