On Thu, 30 Oct 2008 12:43:05 +0200 (EET)
"Ilpo Järvinen" [off-list ref] wrote:

Nothing particularly interesting in it (sorry for the delay, there were 
some other bugs in the meantime to fix and partially because I was out 
of ideas). Minor increase in cpu/wa after nmap, before that it was 0-2, 
mostly zero.

	Hi Ilpo. No problem, it's better late than never ;)

Another thing that occurred to me today is that all these events I know of 
are related to syslog/klogd (I don't know too well how they relate to each 
other and what functionality is provided by each, thus I refer them here 
as one :-)).

- sudo sendmsg'ed to /dev/log and stalled
- every-2nd-char missing in printk relates to it
- usb does cause printks
- server processes likely do some logging (and can then hang on waiting
  until that finishes and therefore eventually no worker is available to 
  process requests)

...Some other type of case I'm missing here?

	Yes, it is that. Anyway I'm talking directly to netfilter
people and they suggested that I use ulogd to capture the exact packet
when the stall happens using pcap. I'll try that. If they can figure it
out what happens to make the log prints every other char, maybe we have
a hint.

Perhaps we could try to solve it though stracing syslogd...

	Yes I can trace it.

Did you ever actually try btw with something else than NO_TICK, we 
discussed it at some point of time but I'm not sure what was the end 
result of what got tested and what not?

	I tried with many options, with TICK enabled and disabled, high
res timer enabled and disabled and other options in the kernel, but it
didn't make any difference.

	I'll try with netfilter people and if i get something, I
will reply ok?

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