Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 06 Sep 2006 11:01:40 -0700 | From | Ben Greear <> | Subject | Re: Unable to halt or reboot due to - unregister_netdevice: waiting for eth0.20 to become free. Usage count = 1 |
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Jesper Juhl wrote: > Ok, I've done some more testing and it seems, unfortunately, that I > can't trigger the problem reliably. I guess I was just "lucky" with my > first few reboots. > It now seems that uptime and/or amount of data that has flowed over > the vlan interface impacts the probability of hitting the problem.
Back when I was chasing the neighbor table leak, I wrote a patch to catch ref-count leaks for net devices. It was against 2.6.13 or so, but if nothing else is helping, it might be worth dusting off.
I put what I believe was the last iteration of that patch here:
http://www.candelatech.com/oss/rfcnt.patch
Thanks, Ben
-- Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com> Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com
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