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Bug 105228 - rpc_tasks slab growing and eventually crashing the kernel
Summary: rpc_tasks slab growing and eventually crashing the kernel
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: [OLD] Core system (show other bugs)
Hardware: x86 Linux
: High critical (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Linux bug wranglers
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Keywords: Bug
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Reported: 2005-09-08 01:05 UTC by Stephane Bosman
Modified: 2005-09-08 03:42 UTC (History)
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Description Stephane Bosman 2005-09-08 01:05:30 UTC
Kernel 2.6.11r11 and 2.6.9r11. Set up as NFS server. Solaris NFS client. After a while, RPC: error 5 
messages appear in /var/log/messages and rpc_tasks in /proc/slabinfo starts to grow. After a few weeks, 
rpc_tasks is big enough to fill the RAM and the system crashes.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start NFS server
2. Mount exported filesystems on solaris 8
3. Wait

Actual Results:  
After a while, RPC: error 5 messages appear in /var/log/messages and rpc_tasks in /proc/slabinfo starts 
to grow. After a few weeks, rpc_tasks is big enough to fill the RAM and the system crashes.

Expected Results:  
No error 5 messages and stable number of rpc_tasks.

Portage 2.0.51.19 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.3.5, glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1, 2.6.11-gentoo-r9 
i686) 
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== 
System uname: 2.6.11-gentoo-r9 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.20GHz 
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 
Python:              dev-lang/python-2.3.4-r1 [2.3.4 (#1, Mar 11 2005, 17:34:27)] 
dev-lang/python:     2.3.4-r1 
sys-apps/sandbox:    [Not Present] 
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.59-r6, 2.13 
sys-devel/automake:  1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.5, 1.4_p6, 1.6.3, 1.9.4 
sys-devel/binutils:  2.15.92.0.2-r1 
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.10-r4 
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.8.1-r2 
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" 
AUTOCLEAN="yes" 
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer" 
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" 
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/
qmail/control" 
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" 
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer" 
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" 
FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" 
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo/" 
MAKEOPTS="-j2" 
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" 
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" 
PORTDIR="/usr/portage" 
SYNC="rsync://rsync.be.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" 
USE="x86 apm arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts crypt cups emboss encode foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif 
gpm gtk2 imlib ipv6 jpeg libg++ libwww mad mikmod motif mp3 mpeg ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl 
oss pam pdflib perl png python quicktime readline sdl spell tcpd truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts 
xml2 xmms xv zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc"

Unset:  ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2005-09-08 03:42:07 UTC
The mentioned kernels are not in portage any more. Reopen if you are able to
reproduce the problem w/ latest gentoo-sources/vanilla-sources.