netdev - Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 14749] New: Kernel locks up after a few minutes of heavy surfing

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Message-ID: <4B1E6527.4020605@gmail.com>
Date:	Tue, 08 Dec 2009 15:39:35 +0100
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com>
CC:	Chris Rankin <rankincj@...oo.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	bugme-daemon@...zilla.kernel.org, stable@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 14749] New: Kernel locks up after a few minutes
 of heavy surfing

Neil Horman a écrit :
> On Tue, Dec 08, 2009 at 05:39:28AM -0800, Chris Rankin wrote:
>> --- On Tue, 8/12/09, Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com> wrote:
>>> 30 minutes isn't too long to wait for an error to appear, I think.
>> Except it's a very "busy" waiting process with me actively surfing the web. I can't automate that. I'm still not entirely sure what the trigger condition is.
>>
> Sure you can, generate a list of sites that you visited and access them all with
> a curl or wget script.  I would imagine thats a reasonable test to trigger the
> reproducer.

Yes, but I suspect a multi threading bug, or vm , or X11, or something.

Andi posted a futex patch that is worth to try, if machine is swaping a bit.

Chris, please provide as much information as you can

# cat /proc/cpuinfo
# cat /proc/meminfo
# ps aux
# scripts/ver_linux
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