From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 11 Jan 2001 06:37:35 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 11 Jan 2001 06:37:25 -0500 Received: from colorfullife.com ([216.156.138.34]:21522 "EHLO colorfullife.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 11 Jan 2001 06:37:15 -0500 From: Manfred To: Troels Walsted Hansen Subject: Re: [PATCH] klogd busy loop on zero byte (output from 3c59x driver) Message-ID: <979213311.3a5d9bffdea75@localhost> Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 06:41:51 -0500 (EST) Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, greg@wind.enjellic.com, joey@linux.de In-Reply-To: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT User-Agent: IMP/PHP IMAP webmail program 2.2.3 X-Originating-IP: 134.96.7.114 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Zitiere Troels Walsted Hansen : > 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. -- Manfred - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/