???UNSURE??? Re: Kernel 5.10.52

[secret <andreas-stoewing@web.de>]

Date: 24.07.2021

Hi, Greg, dear Linux experts and friends,

refering to kernel 5.4, the problem with the highly active root-processes
(making the tower-LED for readwrites blink so serious hard)
listed below, tor needs the mentioned time (of about 5 to 10 minutes) to build
up a first secure connections too!

libapparmor.so.1 required by firejail (OpenSuSE 15.X) needed by tor
(rosa2016.1, mga7) must be the cause for the behaviour of the processes! I
have got no other explanation.

Kernel security module apparmor itself got deactivated within the kernel by my
boot-parameters "secure=none" and "apparmor=none".

After tor and firejail version got changed from OpenSuSE 15.X to mga7, such
root-processes did not get activated!

Now everything works fine!

But I still awaint your patches for kernel-5.4.134...

Regards
Andreas Stöwing, Mönchengladbach







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Back to my e-mail refering to kernel 5.4.134 (pclos)

The unwanted, highly activated root-processes by tor (pclos, mga7) are


kworker/u2:1-kcryptd/253:2 (escpecially this one, CPU: > 10%)
kworker/0:1H-kblockd
dmcrypt_write/2
jbd2/dm2--8

This occurs since kernel around 5.4.130.

Please patch the kernel-5.4 to prevent it in future!
Regards,

Andreas Stöwing



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