severity 693604 serious thanks Am 20.03.2013 10:41, schrieb Hagen Fuchs: > Package: avahi-daemon > Followup-For: Bug #693604 > > Hello, > > I can confirm that applying the patch mentioned above[0] directly on the > Debian avahi-sources stopped these occurrences. To be clear: Avahi > /never/ recovers from these load excursions and stays at ~100% until > killed. > > In our environment of 39 print queues (about 30 physical printers) this > had become rather a serious headache with multiple daily occurrences. I > wrote a rather desperate script that would minutely check for Avahi's > well-being. After applying the patch about two weeks ago, it (the > script) recorded not one instance of permanent overload. > > More tidbits: I have/had two servers exhibiting this behaviour (from a > total of four). They multicast into different subnets. One is a x86_64 > KVM machine, the other a i686 OpenVZ container. Also, the behaviour > occurs in heavily MacOS-infes...frequented subnets.
Bumping the severity, I think this should be fixed for wheezy as it is a rather nasty bug. Will poke upstream if he has any concerns regarding the patch that was posted [1] Michael [1] http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/avahi/2012-September/002188.html -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth?
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