From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Patrick McHardy Subject: Re: IMQ bug: kernel reboot immediately Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 12:28:55 +0200 Message-ID: <49F042E7.7060900@trash.net> References: <20090423084323.GA5696@ff.dom.local> <49F040E8.80402@trash.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Jarek Poplawski , "Y. D." , netdev , netfilter-devel To: Jan Engelhardt Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netfilter-devel.vger.kernel.org Jan Engelhardt wrote: > On Thursday 2009-04-23 12:20, Patrick McHardy wrote: > >>>> Is IMQ still maintained? I am using IMQ to shape ingress traffic. >>>> But the application is a streaming server (VLC). However, the kernel >>>> reboots immediately as quick as can hardly been seen what is >>>> wrong with it. >>>> >>>> Any help with this kinda problem? >>> IMQ isn't a part of kernel/netfilter, so you should try at its own >>> site/mailing list. >> I'd rather suggest to get rid of it and use ifb, AFAIK there hasn't >> been a single version in all those years that didn't cause this kind >> of problems. > > I'd rather point out that ifb does not seem to be able to do all of what > IMQ can, up to the point where it is believed in the public that ifb is > practically useless. I'm aware of those claims, but not of the details. If this is true, people should raise those issues and help resolve them. I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for IMQ to get fixed.