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From: Jan Rekorajski <baggins@sith.mimuw.edu.pl>
To: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Cc: Holger Hoffstaette <holger@wizards.de>,
	Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org
Subject: Re: Nasty regression from .27.7 to .27.8: idle samba goes crazy
Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 02:08:06 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081212010806.GA1007@sith.mimuw.edu.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <493FFE5E.2000404@colorfullife.com>

On Wed, 10 Dec 2008, Manfred Spraul wrote:

>> On Mon, 8 Dec 2008 23:22:46 +0100
>> Jan Rekorajski <baggins@sith.mimuw.edu.pl> wrote:
>>
>>> I think you can safely rule out NIC, I'm also seeing this behaviour on a
>>> brand new server with imap hanging in some busy-loop.
>>> Network card in my case:
>>> Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme II BCM5708 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 12)
>>>
>>> What I observer was one CPU doing 100% system work, and the number of
>>> timer interrupts went from 1k per second to 4k (for the whole system).
>>>
>>>     
> Could you try the attached patch?
> It should fix the bug.

Thank you, I'm currently running 2.6.27.8 with your patch, I'll report
after 12-24 hours.

Jan
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Jan Rekorajski            |  ALL SUSPECTS ARE GUILTY. PERIOD!
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-12-12  1:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-12-08  6:18 Nasty regression from .27.7 to .27.8: idle samba goes crazy Holger Hoffstaette
2008-12-08  7:34 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2008-12-08  8:07   ` Holger Hoffstaette
2008-12-08 16:46     ` Stefan Richter
2008-12-08 19:19       ` Stefan Richter
2008-12-08 20:08         ` Holger Hoffstaette
2008-12-08 22:22         ` Jan Rekorajski
2008-12-09 17:37           ` Chuck Ebbert
2008-12-09 19:16             ` Manfred Spraul
2008-12-09 19:30               ` Chuck Ebbert
2008-12-10 17:37             ` Manfred Spraul
2008-12-11 22:54               ` Holger Hoffstätte
2008-12-11 23:40                 ` [stable] " Greg KH
2008-12-12 10:59                   ` Holger Hoffstätte
2008-12-12  1:08               ` Jan Rekorajski [this message]
2008-12-12 18:26                 ` Jan Rekorajski
2008-12-12 14:01               ` Holger Hoffstätte
2008-12-08 16:32   ` Stefan Richter
2008-12-08 18:46     ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2008-12-08 19:14       ` Stefan Richter

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