On Tue, 6 May 2003 18:10:04 +0200 Kabelweb <office@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I've also encountered machine-lockups once a day with stock 2.4.20 kernel and > htb on SMP. I am using a setup with dynamically changing classes and have > about 2-4mbit traffic. I was using 2.4.17, 2.4.18 and 2.4.19 with htb 3.6 > without problems before (other machine - not SMP though). Unfortunately I > wasn't able to gather any debugging information on the crashes because > getting the system up again was my primary concern. Since I have disabled all > tc stuff on that machine it runs flawlessly (about a week now). I will soon > try to reproduce the problem on another machine. > > Might the changes to htb in 2.4.21 be a solution? Is there any evidence that > SMP might cause problems with htb? > > Any hints would be greatly appreciated! Hello, In 2.4.20 there is a bug in htb code, which was fixed in 2.4.21pre5 (or was it pre6?). You can use net/sched/sch_htb.c from 2.4.21rc1. For details see this thread in lkml: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=105039488700308&w=2 -- Martin Volf
