Eric Anderson wrote: > Wilko Bulte wrote: > >> On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 02:56:36PM -0500, Eric Anderson wrote.. >> >>> Brooks Davis wrote: >>> >>>> On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 10:39:09PM -0400, Mike Jakubik wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>> On Mon, July 25, 2005 9:54 pm, Brooks Davis said: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>>>> Probably something wrong with your interface, but you havent't >>>>>>>> provided any useful information so who knows. At the very least, I >>>>>>>> need to know what interface you are running on, something about >>>>>>>> it's >>>>>>>> status, and if both dhclient processes are running. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> The interface is xl0 (3Com 3c905C-TX Fast Etherlink XL), and it >>>>>>> worked >>>>>>> in this machine fine for as long as i remember. This seems to have >>>>>>> happened since a recent cvsup and buildworld from ~6-BETA to >>>>>>> 7-CURRENT. >>>>>>> I rebooted three times, and the problem occured rougly a minute >>>>>>> after >>>>>>> bootup. On the fourth time however, it seems to be ok so far. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> That sounds like a problem with the code that handles the link state >>>>>> notifications in the interface driver. The notifications are a >>>>>> reletivly >>>>>> new feature that we're only now starting to use heavily so there >>>>>> are going >>>>>> to be bumps in the road. It would be intresting to know if you >>>>>> see link >>>>>> state messages promptly if you plug and unplug the network cable. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> It seems to be back at it again, this time it took longer to kick >>>>> in. Here >>>>> is a "ps auxw|grep dhclient" : >>>>> >>>>> _dhcp 219 93.5 0.2 1484 1136 ?? Rs 8:49PM 5:06.00 >>>>> dhclient: >>>>> xl0 (dhclient) >>>>> root 193 0.0 0.2 1484 1088 d0- S 8:49PM 0:00.02 >>>>> dhclient: >>>>> xl0 [priv] (dhclient) >>>>> >>>>> top: >>>>> >>>>> PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU >>>>> COMMAND >>>>> 219 _dhcp 1 129 0 1484K 1136K RUN 9:33 94.24% >>>>> dhclient >>>>> >>>>> Nothing in dmesg about link state changes on xl0. Unplugging and >>>>> replugging the network cable results in link state notification >>>>> within a >>>>> couple seconds. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Could you see what happens if you run dhclient in the foreground? Just >>>> running "dhclient -d xl0" should do it. I'd like to know what sort of >>>> output it's generating. >>> >>> >>> I have the same issue (with ath0). However, running it in the >>> foreground doesn't show the problem. It seems to only break on bootup >> >> >> >> In my case it does happend with dhclient in the foreground, and on ath(4) >> >> >>> for me. Even running netif stop/start seems ok after I've killed it >>> initially. It seems to be bringing ath0 up/down/up/down/etc when >>> it's hogging CPU. > > > You know, the second I sent that email, it went crazy. Looks like it > was 5 minutes. But if I kill it, and run with -d, I don't see any extra > output. Actually, make that 4 minutes. Need a core file? Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Sr. Systems Administrator Centaur Technology Anything that works is better than anything that doesn't. ------------------------------------------------------------------------Received on Tue Jul 26 2005 - 18:23:31 UTC
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