Re: 2.4.22-pre5 deadlock

[Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br>]

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 (probably this email will get some delay, so apologies if it is obsolete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.