dhclient taking all cpu

[Brooks Davis]

On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 10:39:09PM -0400, Mike Jakubik wrote:
> On Mon, July 25, 2005 9:54 pm, Brooks Davis said:
> 
> >>> Probably something wrong with your interface, but you havent't
> >>> provided any useful information so who knows.  At the very least, I
> >>> need to know what interface you are running on, something about it's
> >>> status, and if both dhclient processes are running.
> >>>
> >> The interface is xl0 (3Com 3c905C-TX Fast Etherlink XL), and it worked
> >> in this machine fine for as long as i remember. This seems to have
> >> happened since a recent cvsup and buildworld from ~6-BETA to 7-CURRENT.
> >>  I rebooted three times, and the problem occured rougly a minute after
> >> bootup. On the fourth time however, it seems to be ok so far.
> >
> > That sounds like a problem with the code that handles the link state
> > notifications in the interface driver.  The notifications are a reletivly
> > new feature that we're only now starting to use heavily so there are going
> > to be bumps in the road.  It would be intresting to know if you see link
> > state messages promptly if you plug and unplug the network cable.
> 
> It seems to be back at it again, this time it took longer to kick in. Here
> is a "ps auxw|grep dhclient" :
> 
> _dhcp      219 93.5  0.2  1484  1136  ??  Rs    8:49PM   5:06.00 dhclient:
> xl0 (dhclient)
> root       193  0.0  0.2  1484  1088  d0- S     8:49PM   0:00.02 dhclient:
> xl0 [priv] (dhclient)
> 
> top:
> 
>   PID USERNAME      THR PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE    TIME   WCPU COMMAND
>   219 _dhcp           1 129    0  1484K  1136K RUN      9:33 94.24% dhclient
> 
> Nothing in dmesg about link state changes on xl0. Unplugging and
> replugging the network cable results in link state notification within a
> couple seconds.

Could you see what happens if you run dhclient in the foreground?  Just
running "dhclient -d xl0" should do it.  I'd like to know what sort of
output it's generating.

-- Brooks

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