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From: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
To: "Pasi Kärkkäinen" <pasik@iki.fi>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux 3.6.x kernel crash in tcp_slow_start / bictcp_cong_avoid with wfica
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2013 22:44:45 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130123214445.GA16641@order.stressinduktion.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130123161238.GE8912@reaktio.net>

On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 06:12:38PM +0200, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> My laptop running Fedora 17 randomly crashes when using wfica (Citrix Receiver / ICA Client) 
> proprietary closed source client for accessing remote desktop server. 
> wfica is running as a normal user, so it shouldn't be able to cause a kernel crash. 
> 
> Crashes seem to happen most often when I use either wlan- or 3G mobile data Internet connection. 
> These kernel crashes happen ramdomly, often 1-2 times a week. 
> What usually happens is that I notice the Internet connection has died, 
> and when I check the kernel dmesg I'm seeing the traceback. 
> At this point I'm still able to use the gnome desktop for maybe 1-5 minutes, 
> but applications start to fail one by one, and finally everything just halts 
> and I need to power cycle the laptop. 

Would it be possible to capture a strace -e network, so we could see which
setsockopt combinations are being applied to the socket. Is capturing ss -ioem
in such moments still possible?

Thanks,

  Hannes

  reply	other threads:[~2013-01-23 21:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-01-23 16:12 Linux 3.6.x kernel crash in tcp_slow_start / bictcp_cong_avoid with wfica Pasi Kärkkäinen
2013-01-23 21:44 ` Hannes Frederic Sowa [this message]
2013-01-23 21:51   ` Pasi Kärkkäinen
2013-01-23 22:00     ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2013-01-24  7:14       ` Pasi Kärkkäinen
2013-01-23 22:25     ` Eric Dumazet
2013-01-23 23:26     ` Stephen Hemminger
2013-01-23 23:41       ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2013-01-23 23:47         ` Eric Dumazet
2013-01-24  6:59           ` Pasi Kärkkäinen
2013-01-24 13:51           ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2013-02-02  3:51             ` Eric Dumazet
2013-02-02 14:28               ` Pasi Kärkkäinen
2013-02-02 15:14                 ` [PATCH] tcp: tcp_process_frto() should not set snd_cwnd to 0 Eric Dumazet
2013-02-02 15:57                   ` Neal Cardwell
2013-02-02 17:32                     ` Eric Dumazet
2013-02-03 19:13                       ` [PATCH] tcp: frto " Eric Dumazet
2013-02-03 21:01                         ` David Miller
2013-02-04 12:14                         ` Ilpo Järvinen
2013-02-04 15:07                           ` Eric Dumazet
2013-02-05 19:44                             ` Eric Dumazet
2013-02-05 19:49                           ` Neal Cardwell
2013-02-06 20:55                             ` David Miller
2013-02-06 21:13                               ` Pasi Kärkkäinen
2013-02-06 21:19                                 ` David Miller
2013-02-06 21:21                                   ` Pasi Kärkkäinen
2013-02-02 15:23                 ` [PATCH] tcp: fix an infinite loop in tcp_slow_start() Eric Dumazet
2013-02-03 21:01                   ` David Miller

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