Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Sporadious hang on 2.0.3[0,1,2,3,4pre2] | From | Camm Maguire <> | Date | 11 Mar 1998 09:30:25 -0500 |
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nobody@REPLAY.COM (Anonymous) writes:
> > please@dont.spam.me wrote: > > > Daniel Ryde wrote: > > >We have many servers here running 2.0.3x kernels. Most of these don't have > > >any problems at all, it is very seldom these hangs, even those under heavy > > >load. Exept all the terminal servers. > > > > > >The difference between these is: > > > They mostly run ppp, sometimes slip > > > They use many serial ports > > > They do "slow" forwarding > > > They handle alot of interrups > > > > There was (is?) a race condition in some versions of the ppp driver, whereby > > two pppds could both open the same port. What would happen is that one > > process would close the port and set the speed to zero while another process > > was writing data into it. This would put the kernel into a dead loop. > > > > I thought this bug had long ago been fixed, but it seems it hasn't... > > The bug was in 2.0.30. Below is a message describing it: > >
By the way, this appears to be precisely what I experienced in the xntpd -d crash in 2.0.33 I posted a while ago. When I get a chance, I'll try the script and see if that is the culprit in my case.
Take care,
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