Re: 2.4.1-pre10 -> 2.4.1 klogd at 100% CPU ; 2.4.0 OK

[David Rees]

On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 06:00:09PM +0000, Padraig Brady wrote:
> Chris Hanson wrote:
> 
> >    Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 17:48:50 +0000
> >    From: Padraig Brady <[e-mail]>
> > 
> >    Are you using the 3c59x driver?
> > 
> > Yes.
> 
> Can we sort this out once and for all? There are a few emails
> everyday relating to this bug.
> 
> The following patch posted by "Troels Walsted Hansen" <[e-mail]>
> on Jan 11th fixes this. The problem is that when 2 consequtive
> NULLs are sent to klogd it goes into a busy loop. Andrew Mortons
> 3c59x driver does this, but also on Jan 11th he replied that he had
> fixed it. I'm using 2.4ac4 with no problems, so I presume some
> of these patches have been lost along the way?
<snip of patch>

And if you are using RedHat, you can also grab the latest sysklogd
from rawhide which includes the patch:
ftp://ftp.redhat.com/rawhide/i386/RedHat/RPMS/sysklogd-1.4-5.i386.rpm

-Dave