Re: Alan's bug catalogue

Stephen Drew (stephen@ee.qub.ac.uk)
Thu, 30 May 1996 18:43:33 +0100 (BST)


Hello Again,

On Thu, 30 May 1996, Axel Kohlmeyer wrote:

>
> Stepen Drew wrote,
>
> > > time. the pentium is still up and has not spilled out a single double
> > > lock on device queue message, since i compiled and installed a custom
> > > kernel. i _GOT_ the message (plus the usual socket destroy delayed flood),
> > > when I booted with the kernel from the 486er which had the SMC driver compile
> > d
> > > in and I used the 3c509 driver as a module.
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Sorry, I didn't read this bit :)


> > Hi All,
> > I compiled the 3com 509 driver as a module (kernel 1.99.8) and I get
> > the double lock on device queue message followed by the flood of socket
> > destroyed delayed messages whereas Axel doesn't (the machine is an old
> > 386, 4Mb Ram which I use as a printer server) Very Strange! :)
> that's wrong. I got them, _WHEN_ I used the 3c509 driver as module.
> now the 3c509 driver is directly compiled into the kernel and the
> double lock on device queue message wasn't seen anymore.
>
> i'll take this as a hint and build/use a kernel WITHOUT ANY modules support.
> perhaps the problem isn't in the networking at all :-(. this is
> _really_ strange :-)
>

Thanks, I'll give it a try

Steve.

s.drew@ee.qub.ac.uk