Re: test13-pre1 changelog

From: Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)
Date: Thu Dec 14 2000 - 18:56:08 EST


On Thu, 14 Dec 2000, Stephen Frost wrote:
>
> Any idea if these issues would cause a general slow-down of a
> machine? For no apparent reason after 5 days running 2.4.0test12
> everything going through my firewall (set up using iptables) I got about
> 100ms time added on to pings and traceroutes.

Probably not related to that particular bug - the netfilter issue has
apparently been around forever, and it was just some changes in IP
fragmentation that just made it show up as an oops.

A 100ms delay sounds like some interrupt shut up or similar (and then
timer handling makes it limp along).

                Linus

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