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    SubjectRe: 2.4.22-pre5 deadlock


    On Sun, 20 Jul 2003, Jim Gifford wrote:

    > ----- Original Message -----
    > From: "Andrea Arcangeli" <andrea@suse.de>
    > To: "Jim Gifford" <maillist@jg555.com>
    > Cc: "Marcelo Tosatti" <marcelo@conectiva.com.br>; "lkml"
    > <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
    > Sent: Saturday, July 19, 2003 10:21 AM
    > Subject: Re: 2.4.22-pre5 deadlock
    >
    >
    > > On Mon, Jul 14, 2003 at 10:03:03AM -0700, Jim Gifford wrote:
    > > > As requested.
    > >
    > > please try to reproduce w/o devfs and/or w/o a kernel module that is
    > > loadable called ipt_psd (netfilter stuff likely, but not part of
    > > mainline pre6/pre7). probably it'll go away either ways and it seems
    > > triggered by the process called couriertcpd. Not sure exactly what's
    > > going on though, since looking into devfs/devfsd doesn't sound
    > > interesting anymore and I don't see the netfilter code out of mainline.
    > >
    > > (probably this email will get some delay, so apologies if it is obsolete
    > > by the time it reaches the network)
    > >
    > > Andrea
    > >
    > I have removed all non-standard iptables modules and the dazuko module. It
    > locked up under pre6 without these modules, but pre7 hasn't caused a problem
    > yet, it's at 28 hours so far, the record is three days. I have noticed
    > increased memory usage, which is the starting sign of problems.

    Jim,

    The increased memory usage seems normal. Its the kernel cahcing more and
    more buffers: they will be freed when the system needs memory.

    Lets wait and see what happens without the iptables and dazuko modules.
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