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Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 03:54:12 +0200 From: Arvid Brodin <arvidb@....se> To: netdev@...r.kernel.org Subject: PROBLEM: kernel freezes, possibly via velocity-related [I sent this to lkml a few days ago; sending it to netdev (being the maillist for the via velocity driver) now after Alan Cox responded thinking that might be a good idea.] Hi, Since I started running deluged (a bittorrent daemon) on my file server, I've started getting sporadic kernel freezes, a few times a week or so. Symptoms: * Keyboard stops responding (SysRq combos does not work), * No panic/oops message on the console; the screen displays the normal login prompt with a blinking cursor, * The network activity LED flashes steadily at 1-2 Hz. The corresponding LED on my switch blinks too, but the traffic does not seem to get forwarded to any other port on the switch (no other lights blinking), * The machine does not respond to pings or ssh logins, * Nothing in var/log/messages or kern.log that I can relate to the freeze (I have gotten some "UDP: short packet" and "eth0: excessive work at interrupt" messages a few hours before the freezes a few times, but that's all). I've never gotten a freeze with the deluge daemon stopped (which it has been for many weeks sometimes), but consistently get freezes, often within a day or two, when it is started and have active torrents. In addition to the kernel I currently run (2.6.29.4), the freezes also occured with gentoo kernels 2.6.23-gentoo-r8 and 2.6.27-gentoo-r10. # uname -a Linux sv1 2.6.29.4 #1 Thu May 21 03:26:33 CEST 2009 i686 VIA Esther processor 1200MHz CentaurHauls GNU/Linux # lspci -vvv See http://pastebin.com/f21145883 # cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : CentaurHauls cpu family : 6 model : 10 model name : VIA Esther processor 1200MHz stepping : 9 cpu MHz : 1199.496 cache size : 128 KB fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug : no coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 1 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce apic sep mtrr pge cmov pat clflush acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 tm nx pni est tm2 rng rng_en ace ace_en ace2 ace2_en phe phe_en pmm pmm_en bogomips : 2399.95 clflush size : 64 power management: Should I report this to the maintainer of my network driver? I'm not sure the symptoms are clear enough to directly blame the network driver, but I do suspect it. Is there some way I can debug a frozen kernel to zoom in on the problem? -- Arvid -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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