From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 28 Sep 2002 20:48:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 28 Sep 2002 20:48:45 -0400 Received: from web40808.mail.yahoo.com ([66.218.78.185]:21547 "HELO web40808.mail.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Sat, 28 Sep 2002 20:48:44 -0400 Message-ID: <20020929005401.44840.qmail@web40808.mail.yahoo.com> Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2002 17:54:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Venkatesh Rao Subject: Re: Problems with tcp_retransmit_skb - Please omit the previous incomplete mail To: kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <200209271451.SAA21049@sex.inr.ac.ru> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Alexey: Indeed it was a network driver problem. The circular buffer queue full condition check was not coded properly. I will send a patch to Greg Ungerer correcting this issue. Thanks a lot for the pointer. Cheers, Venkatesh --- kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru wrote: > Hello! > > > This is the only socket which *sends* relatively > huge > > ... loses enough of date to overflow, all the rest > leak a bit and > silently, until all the memory exhausts and machine > dies. :-) > > > > Can this still be a network driver problem? > > No doubts, it is. > > Alexey __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New DSL Internet Access from SBC & Yahoo! http://sbc.yahoo.com