Hello. I was performing some benchmarks of http transfer with program 'ab' (apache benchmark), comparing, how it will perform with/without kernel khttpd support. I've got oops several times, the error is replicable on my machine, without appache even started. The exact order of actions i did: modprobe khttpd I let the default configuration for first try ( threads=2, maxconnect=1000, clientport=80, serverport=8080...) echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/khttpd/start ab -n 1000 http://localhost:8080/icons/logo.gif (included as attachement) and everithing goes well for now, really pretty boost. echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/khttpd/stop got message: Daemon 1 has ended, Daemon 0 has ended After this step, i see from ps aux: [khttpd - 0 <defunct>] Now, stopped the httpd accelerator and increased number of threads to four: echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/khttpd/stop echo 4 > /proc/sys/net/khttpd/threads Restarted khttpd: echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/khttpd/start (i see some defunct-ed threads too now) Then i reruned the 'ab' benchmark like above: ab -n 1000 http://localhost:8080/icons/logo.gif and the oops become. If i optionally make yet another try of 'ab' benchmark after this oops, i get another oops of type "Aieee in interrupt...killing interrupt"... ----------------------------------------- Here are infos: ksymoops 2.3.7 on i586 2.4.3-ac3. Options used -v /usr/src/linux/vmlinux (specified) -k ./ksyms (specified) -l ./modules (specified) -o /lib/modules/2.4.3-ac3/ (specified) -m /usr/src/linux/System.map (specified) Apr 14 14:44:04 Boris kernel: Oops: 0000 Apr 14 14:44:04 Boris kernel: CPU: 0 Apr 14 14:44:04 Boris kernel: EIP: 0010:[<c01bd9a8>] Using defaults from ksymoops -t elf32-i386 -a i386 Apr 14 14:44:04 Boris kernel: EFLAGS: 00010202 Apr 14 14:44:04 Boris kernel: eax: 00000000 ebx: c141702c ecx: 00000004 edx: 00000004 Apr 14 14:44:04 Boris kernel: esi: 00000000 edi: c2897a01 ebp: 00000000 esp: c1415f14 Apr 14 14:44:04 Boris kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018 Apr 14 14:44:04 Boris kernel: Process khttpd - 0 (pid: 1016, stackpage=c1415000) Apr 14 14:44:04 Boris kernel: Stack: c0000000 c1417000 c289638a 00000000 c2897a01 c141702c c0000000 c1417000 Apr 14 14:44:04 Boris kernel: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 c2897538 00000000 Apr 14 14:44:04 Boris kernel: 00000000 c1417000 c02c936c c1417000 00000000 c2899e80 00000000 00000fff Apr 14 14:44:04 Boris kernel: Call Trace: [<c289638a>] [<c2897a01>] [<c2897538>] [<c2899e80>] [<c28973e6>] [<c28951f1>] [<c2898e40>] Apr 14 14:44:04 Boris kernel: [<c2898e00>] [<c010542c>] [<c2898e40>] [<c2898e40>] Apr 14 14:44:04 Boris kernel: Code: f3 a6 74 0a 96 46 80 78 ff 00 75 ec 31 c0 5e 5f c3 90 90 90 >>EIP; c01bd9a8 <strstr+20/38> <===== Trace; c289638a <[khttpd]ParseHeader+26/2dc> Trace; c2897a01 <[khttpd].rodata.start+361/6ed> Trace; c2897538 <[khttpd]DecodeHeader+b4/198> Trace; c2899e80 <[khttpd]Buffer+180/37f> Trace; c28973e6 <[khttpd]WaitForHeaders+76/b8> Trace; c28951f1 <[khttpd]MainDaemon+155/218> Trace; c2898e40 <[khttpd]CountBuf+0/40> Trace; c2898e00 <[khttpd]Running+0/40> Trace; c010542c <kernel_thread+28/38> Trace; c2898e40 <[khttpd]CountBuf+0/40> Trace; c2898e40 <[khttpd]CountBuf+0/40> Code; c01bd9a8 <strstr+20/38> 00000000 <_EIP>: Code; c01bd9a8 <strstr+20/38> <===== 0: f3 a6 repz cmpsb %es:(%edi),%ds:(%esi) <===== Code; c01bd9aa <strstr+22/38> 2: 74 0a je e <_EIP+0xe> c01bd9b6 <strstr+2e/38> Code; c01bd9ac <strstr+24/38> 4: 96 xchg %eax,%esi Code; c01bd9ad <strstr+25/38> 5: 46 inc %esi Code; c01bd9ae <strstr+26/38> 6: 80 78 ff 00 cmpb $0x0,0xffffffff(%eax) Code; c01bd9b2 <strstr+2a/38> a: 75 ec jne fffffff8 <_EIP+0xfffffff8> c01bd9a0 <strstr+18/38> Code; c01bd9b4 <strstr+2c/38> c: 31 c0 xor %eax,%eax Code; c01bd9b6 <strstr+2e/38> e: 5e pop %esi Code; c01bd9b7 <strstr+2f/38> f: 5f pop %edi Code; c01bd9b8 <strstr+30/38> 10: c3 ret Code; c01bd9b9 <strstr+31/38> 11: 90 nop Code; c01bd9ba <strstr+32/38> 12: 90 nop Code; c01bd9bb <strstr+33/38> 13: 90 nop --------------------------------------------- cat /proc/modules: khttpd 21072 5 autofs4 8128 6 (autoclean) 3c509 6896 1 (autoclean) awe_wave 155936 0 sb 7008 0 sb_lib 32368 0 [sb] uart401 6000 0 [sb_lib] sound 52704 0 [awe_wave sb_lib uart401] nls_iso8859-1 2848 2 (autoclean) nls_cp437 4352 2 (autoclean) vfat 8400 2 (autoclean) fat 29120 0 (autoclean) [vfat] floppy 45872 0 (autoclean) ide-cd 25904 0 (autoclean) cdrom 27008 0 (autoclean) [ide-cd] ----------------------------------------------------------- ver_linux script: Linux Boris 2.4.3-ac3 #1 Fri Apr 13 20:48:04 CEST 2001 i586 unknown Gnu C 2.95.3 Gnu make 3.79.1 binutils 2.10.0.24 util-linux 2.10o mount 2.10o modutils 2.4.5 e2fsprogs 1.19 PPP 2.4.0 Linux C Library 2.1.3 Dynamic linker (ldd) 2.1.3 Procps 2.0.7 Net-tools 1.57 Console-tools 0.2.3 Sh-utils 2.0 Modules Loaded khttpd autofs4 3c509 awe_wave sb sb_lib uart401 sound nls_iso8859-1 nls_cp437 vfat fat floppy ide-cd cdrom ------------------------------------------------------------- cat /proc/cpuinfo: processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 5 model : 4 model name : Pentium MMX stepping : 3 cpu MHz : 167.047 fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug : yes coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 1 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr mce cx8 mmx bogomips : 333.41 Maybe i did something stuppid, eg. it's required to unload httpd first before changing number of threads. In this case or in case this problem already is/was solved, i'm sorry. Regards B. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/