Hi, On Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 10:56:53AM +0200, nuclearcat wrote:
> Is discussed at > http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/1/message/12508/thread > bug fixed in 2.4.x tree? Cause seems i have downloaded 2.4.29, and it > is not fixed (still my kernel on vpn server crashing almost at start), > i have grepped fast pre and bk patches, but didnt found any fixed > related to tty/pty. Can you please post the oops? Have you done so already? What makes you think it is the same race discussed in the above thread? BTW, I fail to see any drivers/char/pty.c change related to the race which triggers the pty_chars_in_buffer->0 oops. Quoting the first message from thread you mention: "That last call trace entry is the call in pty_chars_in_buffer() to /* The ldisc must report 0 if no characters available to be read */ count = to->ldisc.chars_in_buffer(to); " Alan, Linus, what correction to the which the above thread discusses has been deployed? > Provided in thread patch from Linus working, but after night i have > checked server, and see load average jumped to 700. > Can anybody help in that? I am not kernel guru to provide a patch, but > seems by search in google it is actual problem for people, who own > poptop vpn servers, it is really causing serious instability for > servers. Can you compile a list of such v2.4 reports? - 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/
