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SubjectRe: 2.4.22-pre5 deadlock
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Marcelo Tosatti" <marcelo@conectiva.com.br>
To: "Jim Gifford" <maillist@jg555.com>
Cc: "Andrea Arcangeli" <andrea@suse.de>; "lkml"
<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Sent: Monday, July 21, 2003 5:45 AM
Subject: Re: 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 (probably this email will get some delay, so apologies if it is
obsolete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.
>

This could be revelant to my situation
http://lists.netfilter.org/pipermail/netfilter/2003-July/045504.html

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