Re: A few questions and notes....

Daniel A. Taylor (danielt@dgii.com)
Thu, 23 May 1996 12:24:50 -0500 (CDT)


On Wed, 15 May 1996, Linus Torvalds wrote:

>
> (Note: the "double lock on device queue" message that sounds similar _is_
> a real bug, so if people see that one then tell the world)

You mean like these?

Apr 21 01:53:57 thranx kernel: double lock on device queue!
Apr 24 23:46:35 thranx kernel: double lock on device queue!
Apr 25 21:47:13 thranx kernel: double lock on device queue!
Apr 26 22:37:09 thranx kernel: double lock on device queue!
Apr 29 20:12:29 thranx kernel: double lock on device queue!
Apr 30 16:01:55 thranx kernel: double lock on socket at 00140e98
May 2 19:52:29 thranx kernel: double lock on device queue!
May 6 03:20:07 thranx kernel: double lock on device queue!
May 6 22:06:24 thranx kernel: double lock on device queue!
May 8 20:13:35 thranx kernel: double lock on device queue!
May 13 22:54:06 thranx kernel: double lock on device queue!
May 15 16:11:11 thranx kernel: double lock on device queue!
May 21 19:03:38 thranx kernel: double lock on device queue!

I have noticed that they are usually occuring during off-hours
when the system is mostly idle. The double lock messages
normaly precede tonnes of "socket destroy delayeds" at 10 sec intervals.

Daniel Taylor