Re: test13-pre1 changelog

Linus Torvalds
2000-12-15T00:27:19Z

On Thu, 14 Dec 2000, Stephen Frost wrote:
>
> Any idea if these issues would cause a general slow-down of a
> machine? For no apparent reason after 5 days running 2.4.0test12
> everything going through my firewall (set up using iptables) I got about
> 100ms time added on to pings and traceroutes.

Probably not related to that particular bug - the netfilter issue has
apparently been around forever, and it was just some changes in IP
fragmentation that just made it show up as an oops.

A 100ms delay sounds like some interrupt shut up or similar (and then
timer handling makes it limp along).

Linus