Re: kernel 2.6.25-rc7 highly unstable on high load

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From: Eric Dumazet
Date: Thursday, March 27, 2008 - 11:56 am

Denys Fedoryshchenko a écrit :

Very interesting... you can see 101588 dst are *delayed* in dst_garbage, 
but apparently never freed.

Something is wrong, but the count seems stable. Must be some kind of 
event, admin driven or something...
might be the "ip route flush cache" that is schedlued around 600 seconds 
of machine alive, then secret_interval seconds later...

Typically, when a "ip route flush cache" is done (manually or triggered 
by secret_interval timer), refcounted>0 entries are put into dst_garbage.

Then when some trafic occurs on the flows involved, IP stack should 
decrement refcount so that next dst_garbage round can free the deleted 
entries. Normal TCP connections are doing this correctly. On your 
machine, nothing.

Possibly idle tcp sessions ?

Maybe some netfilter problem ?

Please tell us more about your machine ;)




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Re: kernel 2.6.25-rc7 highly unstable on high load, Eric Dumazet, (Thu Mar 27, 9:07 am)
Re: kernel 2.6.25-rc7 highly unstable on high load, Eric Dumazet, (Thu Mar 27, 9:29 am)
Re: kernel 2.6.25-rc7 highly unstable on high load, Denys Fedoryshchenko, (Thu Mar 27, 11:37 am)
Re: kernel 2.6.25-rc7 highly unstable on high load, Eric Dumazet, (Thu Mar 27, 11:56 am)
Re: kernel 2.6.25-rc7 highly unstable on high load, Denis V. Lunev, (Thu Mar 27, 12:05 pm)
Re: kernel 2.6.25-rc7 highly unstable on high load, David Miller, (Thu Mar 27, 3:03 pm)
Re: kernel 2.6.25-rc7 highly unstable on high load, Denys Fedoryshchenko, (Thu Mar 27, 5:47 pm)
Re: kernel 2.6.25-rc7 highly unstable on high load, Denys Fedoryshchenko, (Thu Mar 27, 9:50 pm)
Re: kernel 2.6.25-rc7 highly unstable on high load, Denys Fedoryshchenko, (Thu Mar 27, 10:25 pm)
Re: kernel 2.6.25-rc7 highly unstable on high load, Eric Dumazet, (Thu Mar 27, 10:49 pm)
Re: kernel 2.6.25-rc7 highly unstable on high load, Denys Fedoryshchenko, (Fri Mar 28, 12:38 am)
Re: kernel 2.6.25-rc7 highly unstable on high load, Eric Dumazet, (Fri Mar 28, 12:46 am)
Re: kernel 2.6.25-rc7 highly unstable on high load, Denys Fedoryshchenko, (Fri Mar 28, 2:50 am)
Re: kernel 2.6.25-rc7 highly unstable on high load, Eric Dumazet, (Fri Mar 28, 8:57 am)
Re: kernel 2.6.25-rc7 highly unstable on high load, Stephen Hemminger, (Fri Mar 28, 1:23 pm)
Re: kernel 2.6.25-rc7 highly unstable on high load, Denys Fedoryshchenko, (Fri Mar 28, 1:45 pm)
Re: kernel 2.6.25-rc7 highly unstable on high load, Eric Dumazet, (Fri Mar 28, 2:17 pm)
Re: kernel 2.6.25-rc7 highly unstable on high load, David Miller, (Fri Mar 28, 4:21 pm)
Re: kernel 2.6.25-rc7 highly unstable on high load, Denys Fedoryshchenko, (Sat Mar 29, 2:35 am)