Big problems with 7.1 locking up :-(
cpghost
cpghost at cordula.ws
Wed Feb 25 11:05:50 PST 2009
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 11:04:29AM +0000, Robert Watson wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Feb 2009, Pete French wrote:
>
> >> FYI, I'm currently awaiting testing results from Pete on the MFC of a
> >> number of routing table locking fixes, and once that's merged (hopefully
> >> tomorrow?) I'll start on the patches in the above PR. I've taken a
> >> crash-course in routing table locking in the last few days... :-)
> >
> > Just to let you know that I have had zero crashes since I out the
> > patch live on sunday. Of course thats only three days, but it does
> > look very much like it has fixed it. I am also running with the
> > other routing table patch too.. At this point no news is good
> > news, as it is just sitting there ticking away nicely to itself. I
> > will roll it out to a few more machines over the next few days.
> > But looking good so far, I would encourage other people to try the
> > ptches if they are having problems...
>
> Thanks -- I've gone ahead and merged the patch to 7.x (r189026) so
> that I can look at the PR and get that in-progress. Since the code
> affected by the PR is no longer in 8.x, I'll merge directly to 7.x,
> and probably fairly quickly since you've had it in production for a
> while.
Great! I hope this patch will also fix the mysterious hangs
I've experienced on Soekris routers since nov/dec 2008. Will
try in a few days and report back any further hangs.
> Robert N M Watson
> Computer Laboratory
> University of Cambridge
Regards,
-cpghost.
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