Am 20.03.2013 11:53, schrieb Michael Biebl: > severity 693604 serious > thanks > > Am 20.03.2013 10:41, schrieb Hagen Fuchs: >> Package: avahi-daemon >> Followup-For: Bug #693604 >> >> Hello, >> >> I can confirm that applying the patch mentioned above[0] directly on the >> Debian avahi-sources stopped these occurrences. To be clear: Avahi >> /never/ recovers from these load excursions and stays at ~100% until >> killed. >> >> In our environment of 39 print queues (about 30 physical printers) this >> had become rather a serious headache with multiple daily occurrences. I >> wrote a rather desperate script that would minutely check for Avahi's >> well-being. After applying the patch about two weeks ago, it (the >> script) recorded not one instance of permanent overload. >> >> More tidbits: I have/had two servers exhibiting this behaviour (from a >> total of four). They multicast into different subnets. One is a x86_64 >> KVM machine, the other a i686 OpenVZ container. Also, the behaviour >> occurs in heavily MacOS-infes...frequented subnets. > > Bumping the severity, I think this should be fixed for wheezy as it is a > rather nasty bug. > Will poke upstream if he has any concerns regarding the patch that was > posted [1] > > > Michael > [1] http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/avahi/2012-September/002188.html >
Bringing Lennart into the loop here. The relevant Debian bug report is [1] and the same issue was also reported in the Ubuntu bug tracker. The patch from [3] was reported to fix the issue. So it would be great if you, Lennart, can have a look at the patch. Michael [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=693604 [2] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/avahi/+bug/1059286 [3] http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/avahi/2012-September/002188.html -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth?
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