netdev.vger.kernel.org archive mirror
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: linux@horizon.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.23-rc8 network problem.  Mem leak?  ip1000a?
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 02:20:51 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070928022051.a6f27b1e.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070928020617.7389.qmail@science.horizon.com>

On 27 Sep 2007 22:06:17 -0400 linux@horizon.com wrote:

> Uniprocessor Althlon 64, 64-bit kernel, 2G ECC RAM,
> 2.6.23-rc8 + linuxpps (5.0.0) + ip1000a driver.
> (patch from http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=118980588419882)
> 
> After a few hours of operation, ntp loses the ability to send packets.
> sendto() returns -EAGAIN to everything, including the 24-byte UDP packet
> that is a response to ntpq.
> 
> ...
>
> Killing and restarting ntpd gets it running again for a few hours.
> Here's after about two hours of successful operation.  (I'll try to
> remember to run slabinfo before killing ntpd next time.)

ntpd.  Sounds like pps leaking to me.

> 
> Can anyone offer some diagnosis advice?
> 

CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB_LEAK?

  reply	other threads:[~2007-09-28  9:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-09-28  2:06 2.6.23-rc8 network problem. Mem leak? ip1000a? linux
2007-09-28  9:20 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2007-09-30  7:59   ` linux
2007-09-30  9:23     ` Andrew Morton
2007-09-30 11:40       ` linux
2008-01-08  6:52       ` linux
2008-01-08  7:07         ` David Miller
2008-01-08  7:14           ` David Miller
2008-01-08  7:51             ` Francois Romieu
2008-01-08 12:28             ` [PATCH 1/3] drivers/net/ipg.c: Fix skbuff leak linux
2008-01-08 13:19               ` linux
2008-01-08 21:36                 ` Francois Romieu
2008-01-08 23:00                   ` David Miller
2008-01-08 23:28                     ` Francois Romieu
2008-01-09  0:38                   ` linux
2008-01-09  8:39                     ` David Miller
2008-01-09 23:34                       ` Francois Romieu
2008-01-09 23:56                         ` David Miller
2008-01-09 23:30                     ` Francois Romieu
2008-01-10  7:28                       ` ipg.c bugs linux

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=20070928022051.a6f27b1e.akpm@linux-foundation.org \
    --to=akpm@linux-foundation.org \
    --cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=linux@horizon.com \
    --cc=netdev@vger.kernel.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).