I assume that you have seen this: http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.11.4
If not .. tag patch:) In less than 100 lines, even! Justin On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 02:54:56AM +0100, Christian wrote: > Package: ppp > Version: 2.4.2+20040428-6 > Severity: critical > Justification: breaks the whole system > > hello pppeople, > > i've encountered serious problems with pppd and days of monitoring the > issues lead me to the assumption that pppd is to blame. feel free to > tell me otherwise and i'll happily forward the problem to the right > people - because i am not guru enough to fix it. > > the problem in short: i am using pppd with pppoe (ADSL dialup) i get > disconnected by my ISP once a day and pppd receives "LCP terminated by > peer" then. normally pppd will reconnect and the box would be online > again. this does not happen anymore, instead 30min after disconnect all > RAM is chewed up by *something* (still don't know by what, please read > on) and OOM killer kicks in, killing almost every application. > > i have reported the issue to the linux-kernel mailinglist first, because > i thought it was a kernel issue: > http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/3/8/173 > http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/3/10/109 > maybe the replies are noteworthy too. > > yesterday i hit the issue again, with more (hopefully helpful) details: > http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0503.2/0316.html > again, the time between "LCP terminated by peer" to the first OOM > messages are (alsmost exactly) 30min. when this happens, i am usually > not around, so when i get to the machine, OOM has already happened. i > can recover the machine (no reboot, but SYSRQ-E) and i have to kill -9 > pppd, anything else does not work: > > http://nerdbynature.de/bits/sheep/2.6.11/oom/pppd.log > ("Terminating on signal 15" does not work, "+++ killed by SIGKILL +++" > is the only choice.) > > i first noticed this behaviour with a new kernel, namely 2.6.11, but > downgrading to a former (stable for me) kernel (2.6.11-rc5-bk2) did not > help. instead, i downgraded from pppd-2.4.3-20041231+2 to > ppp-2.4.2+20040428-6 and got rid of the problem! 2.4.3 was uploaded on > 26.02.2005, and a couple of days later i switched to a new kernel and > did a "apt-get upgrade". that could be the cause, i suspected kernel > issues first. > > have a look at http://nerdbynature.de/bits/sheep/2.6.11/oom/ for > further details, feel free to ask. i still did not manage to reproduce > the problem "by hand", e.g. by setting up a pppoe server on the same > machine, connecting with "pppd call..." and killing the pppoe server > (in the hope that it might send "LCP terminated by peer" to the pppd"). > > > thank you for your time, > Christian. > > -- System Information: > Debian Release: 3.1 > APT prefers unstable > APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') > Architecture: i386 (i686) > Kernel: Linux 2.6.11.3 > Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) > > Versions of packages ppp depends on: > ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-20 GNU C Library: Shared libraries > an > ii libpam-modules 0.76-22 Pluggable Authentication Modules > f > ii libpam-runtime 0.76-22 Runtime support for the PAM > librar > ii libpam0g 0.76-22 Pluggable Authentication Modules > l > ii libpcap0.7 0.7.2-7 System interface for user-level > pa > ii libssl0.9.7 0.9.7e-3 SSL shared libraries > ii makedev 2.3.1-76 creates device files in /dev > ii netbase 4.20 Basic TCP/IP networking system > ii procps 1:3.2.5-1 /proc file system utilities > > -- no debconf information > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Justin Pryzby whois jgalt References [0] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
