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From: Manfred <manfred@colorfullife.com>
To: Troels Walsted Hansen <troels@thule.no>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, greg@wind.enjellic.com, joey@linux.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH] klogd busy loop on zero byte (output from 3c59x driver)
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 06:41:51 -0500 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <979213311.3a5d9bffdea75@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CKECLHEEHJOPHGPCOCKPEECCCCAA.troels@thule.no>
In-Reply-To: <CKECLHEEHJOPHGPCOCKPEECCCCAA.troels@thule.no>

Zitiere Troels Walsted Hansen <troels@thule.no>:

> Hi all.
> 
> I found a bug in the sysklogd package version 1.4. When it encounters a
> zero
> byte in the kernel logging output, the text parser enters a busy loop.

That finally explains the "klogd eats 100% cpu time" reports with ~2.2.10:

We (I and Andrea) fixed several bugs in the kernel code, but none of them
explained why klogd entered a busy loop. 


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	Manfred
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  reply	other threads:[~2001-01-11 11:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-01-11  8:48 [PATCH] klogd busy loop on zero byte (output from 3c59x driver) Troels Walsted Hansen
2001-01-11 11:41 ` Manfred [this message]
2001-01-11 12:03 ` Andrew Morton
2001-01-11 14:06   ` Troels Walsted Hansen
2001-01-11 17:30   ` David Hinds

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