Re: Is this bad?

Mike Panetta (mpanetta@realminfo.com)
Tue, 4 May 1999 13:03:00 -0400


Unfortunately this was accompanied by a total loss of network connectivity
on this particular box... I dont know what the cause was. I dont even
know if it was related. But it looks like some sort of kernel space
buffer over run to me...

On Tue, May 04, 1999 at 07:20:58PM +0300, Meelis Roos wrote:
> MP> root 2 0.4 0.0 0 0 ? SW Apr 27 71224914:52 (kflushd)
>
> I bet this is a 2.0.x kernel. I have seen the same on 2.0.33 and 2.0.34.
> 2.0.34 "went crazy" after some days of uptime. Haven't tried newer
> versions on the problematic machine (an amd 486 120).
>
> But it seems to be harless - it's just the number. And it's not
> realistic - it's much higher than the uptime.
>
> This has not influenced anything afaics, last time the uptime got to 230
> w/2.0.33, currently it's over 80 days.
>
> --
> Meelis Roos (mroos@tartu.cyber.ee)

-- 
Mike Panetta

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