Good evening,
Bugzilla entry on this is now here:
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6484
Note the interesting fact that kernel mode PPPoE is not affected. Thus it
could also be a bug in Roaring Penguin's PPPoE program. The problem is
that all other user space implementations seem to b
On Sun, 30 Apr 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I observed a 1-2 sec stalling behaviour for the complete system every
10 seconds or so _seemingly_ only when my ADSL connection was up.
I had that idea too, but that sounds different from what I have here. I
have also transfered lots of data at >9
Some more info:
- turning off Hyper Threading and using a uniprocessor kernel
did not improve things
- so didn't using 2.6.17rc3, in fact the bug manifested after
only 4 minutes with a 43 seconds gap
- those kernel debug watchdog routines don't detect anything
Going to try kernel PPPoE next
On Wed, 26 Apr 2006, Sven Schuster wrote:
but don't hold your breath waiting for me, kernel compile
takes more than two hours on my box :-)
Ouch. Takes 5/7 minutes here on the AMD64 resp. P4. Computer museum? :P
Anyhow, I tested PPP for 2.5 hours on the AMD64 the day before
yesterday with a b
no problems here with pppoe, kernel is 2.6.17-rc1-mm1, ppp 2.4.4-b1.
Did you create a high load on the system in the manner I described?
The bug once only appeared after about 6 hours here when line + CPU had
been mostly idle. But that was the longest time between failures. Can you
test with o
