From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 27 19:39:02 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C70816A41F; Wed, 27 Jul 2005 19:39:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from brdavis@odin.ac.hmc.edu) Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (Odin.AC.HMC.Edu [134.173.32.75]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1461943D46; Wed, 27 Jul 2005 19:39:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from brdavis@odin.ac.hmc.edu) Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id j6RJcmA7021360; Wed, 27 Jul 2005 12:38:48 -0700 Received: (from brdavis@localhost) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.13.0/8.13.0/Submit) id j6RJcmqS021359; Wed, 27 Jul 2005 12:38:48 -0700 Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 12:38:48 -0700 From: Brooks Davis To: Eric Anderson Message-ID: <20050727193848.GB20112@odin.ac.hmc.edu> References: <42E58007.9030202@rogers.com> <20050726193324.GA4603@odin.ac.hmc.edu> <20050726200059.GA47478@freebie.xs4all.nl> <200507261853.19211.jkim@FreeBSD.org> <20050726233933.GA13679@odin.ac.hmc.edu> <20050727191043.GA17885@odin.ac.hmc.edu> <42E7E1EA.9060209@centtech.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="QKdGvSO+nmPlgiQ/" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <42E7E1EA.9060209@centtech.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=8.0 tests=none autolearn=no version=2.63 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on odin.ac.hmc.edu Cc: Wilko Bulte , freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Jung-uk Kim , Mike Jakubik Subject: Re: dhclient taking all cpu X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 19:39:02 -0000 --QKdGvSO+nmPlgiQ/ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 02:35:06PM -0500, Eric Anderson wrote: > Brooks Davis wrote: > >On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 04:39:33PM -0700, Brooks Davis wrote: > > > >>On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 06:53:17PM -0400, Jung-uk Kim wrote: > >> > >>>On Tuesday 26 July 2005 04:00 pm, Wilko Bulte wrote: > >>> > >>>>On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 12:33:24PM -0700, Brooks Davis wrote.. > >>>> > >>>> > >>>>>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 =20 > >>>>>>5:06.00 dhclient: xl0 (dhclient) > >>>>>>root 193 0.0 0.2 1484 1088 d0- S 8:49PM =20 > >>>>>>0:00.02 dhclient: xl0 [priv] (dhclient) > >>>>>> > >>>>>>top: > >>>>>> > >>>>>> PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME =20 > >>>>>>WCPU COMMAND 219 _dhcp 1 129 0 1484K 1136K RUN =20 > >>>>>> 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. > >>>> > >>>>In my case it is not displaying anything: > >>>> > >>>> > >>>>chuck#dhclient -d ath0 > >>>>DHCPREQUEST on ath0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 > >>>>DHCPACK from 192.168.5.254 > >>>>bound to 192.168.5.20 -- renewal in 21600 seconds. > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>>I can tell the phenomenon occurs when my laptop fan springs to > >>>>life: > >>>> > >>>>CPU states: 96.5% user, 0.0% nice, 2.7% system, 0.8% interrupt,=20 > >>>>0.0% idle > >>>>Mem: 48M Active, 28M Inact, 50M Wired, 680K Cache, 34M Buf, 115M > >>>>Free Swap: 257M Total, 257M Free > >>>> > >>>> PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU > >>>>COMMAND 719 _dhcp 1 129 0 1384K 1092K RUN 2:14 > >>>>93.55% dhclient 607 root 1 98 0 34584K 21212K select =20 > >>>>0:09 1.81% Xorg 663 wb 4 20 0 46712K 40224K kserel =20 > >>>>0:27 0.00% mozilla-bin 503 root 1 8 0 1184K 796K > >>>>nanslp 0:07 0.00% powerd > >>>> > >>>>Took (best guess) approx 5-10 minutes for the effect to kick in. > >>> > >>>FYI, I have the same issues with bge(4) and ndis(4). > >> > >>I've seen it on ath and em interfaces now, but am not sure what's going > >>on. and have no idea how to reproduce the problem. As also reported by > >>Bakul Shah, we seem to be getting into a state where receive_packet() is > >>spinning. I'm not seeing an obvious way for this to be possible. > > > > > >I think I've found it. There was a really odd typo (=3D instead of +) in > >the code that handles undersized captures on the bpf socket. Please try > >the following patch and see if it solves the problem. I'm testing here, > >but I don't have a reliable way to trigger the bug. The fix is fairly > >obvious so I'll commit it to head shortly. >=20 > It's been 20 minutes without any issues - I think that did it. Thanks! Great! Thanks for the report. -- Brooks --=20 Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. 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