From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eric Dumazet Subject: Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 14749] New: Kernel locks up after a few minutes of heavy surfing Date: Tue, 08 Dec 2009 15:39:35 +0100 Message-ID: <4B1E6527.4020605@gmail.com> References: <20091208120021.GA24223@hmsreliant.think-freely.org> <219482.3038.qm@web52901.mail.re2.yahoo.com> <20091208134157.GB24223@hmsreliant.think-freely.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Chris Rankin , netdev@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , bugme-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org To: Neil Horman Return-path: Received: from gw1.cosmosbay.com ([212.99.114.194]:57009 "EHLO gw1.cosmosbay.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755642AbZLHOkV (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Dec 2009 09:40:21 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20091208134157.GB24223@hmsreliant.think-freely.org> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Neil Horman a =E9crit : > On Tue, Dec 08, 2009 at 05:39:28AM -0800, Chris Rankin wrote: >> --- On Tue, 8/12/09, Neil Horman wrote: >>> 30 minutes isn't too long to wait for an error to appear, I think. >> Except it's a very "busy" waiting process with me actively surfing t= he web. I can't automate that. I'm still not entirely sure what the tri= gger condition is. >> > Sure you can, generate a list of sites that you visited and access th= em all with > a curl or wget script. I would imagine thats a reasonable test to tr= igger the > reproducer. Yes, but I suspect a multi threading bug, or vm , or X11, or something. Andi posted a futex patch that is worth to try, if machine is swaping a= bit. Chris, please provide as much information as you can # cat /proc/cpuinfo # cat /proc/meminfo # ps aux # scripts/ver_linux