From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Laurent Riffard <laurent.riffard@free.fr>
Cc: Kernel development list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.23-rc[68]-mm: network hangs
Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2007 01:31:06 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070929013106.4f84320d.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46FD5A82.9070505@free.fr>
On Fri, 28 Sep 2007 21:48:18 +0200 Laurent Riffard <laurent.riffard@free.fr> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> >From time to time, I experience some complete network hangs:
>
> Suddenly, all network connections become unresponsive. Even "ping
> 127.0.0.1" doesn't work. SysRq-w does not show any blocked processus.
>
> When such hang happen, I have to reboot (shutdown does work).
>
> This is not easily reproducible: it happens several minutes after
> boot (could be 45 minutes or 2 hours). I do not use heavy networking
> apps (like P2P). My typical usage is a Gnome desktop with browser,
> mailer, IM, video or audio streaming.
>
> I have a single PC connected to a DSL router via ethernet (so no LAN
> with NFS or CIFS).
>
> This happens with 2.6.23-rc8-mm2 and 2.6.23-rc6-mm1. I can't remember
> when I first see this problem. Maybe 2 months ago.
>
> I attached the output of "strace ping 127.0.0.1". How can I collect
> some more data when this problem happens ?
>
I have a second report of this from Uwe Bugla (who has been banished from
all vger lists for various naughtinesses).
Similar story - after a few hours his network router (which is using ppp in
some fashion) craps out and dhcp queries all time out.
I'd be suspecting a ppp bug in net-2.6.24.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-29 8:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-28 19:48 2.6.23-rc[68]-mm: network hangs Laurent Riffard
2007-09-29 8:31 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2007-09-29 9:22 ` Laurent Riffard
2007-09-29 9:35 ` David Miller
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