Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 05 Aug 2010 09:57:14 -0700 | From | Ben Greear <> | Subject | Re: NET_NS: unregister_netdevice: waiting for lo to become free (after using openvpn) |
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On 08/05/2010 02:51 AM, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > Michael Leun<lkml20100708@newton.leun.net> writes:
>> Unfortunately looks like indefinitely. Never watched longer so far >> (rebooted soon), but I'm seeing this message now repeated every 10 secs >> for ~10 minutes on a idle system. > > Ugh. A real bug then. These can be a pain to track down and fix. I > think the last one of these I tracked down took a couple of weeks. I > will start digging in when I get back from vacation.
I once spent a similar amount of time putting in debug variants that printed info for each time a netdev was acquired and released.
Maybe a similar logic could be put into the official kernel (and disabled by default)?
That should save effort in the long run, I'd think.
Thanks, Ben
-- Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com> Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com
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