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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: 2.6.0-test9 : bridge freezes
Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2003 15:26:01 -0800
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On Sat, 22 Nov 2003 08:20:40 -0800 (PST)
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote:

> On Sat, 22 Nov 2003, SVR Anand wrote:
> > 
> > The problem is : After 3 to 4 hours of functioning, the bridge stops working 
> > and the machine becomes unusable where it doesn't respond to keyboard, and 
> > there is no video display.
> 
> Sounds like a memory leak somewhere. It would probably be interesting to 
> watch /proc/slabinfo every five minutes or so, and see what happens..

Also, we've certainly fixed some serious networking bugs since test9
came out.