Stephen Hemminger wrote: > Two other recent reports are: > 1. Buggy applications that hold packets in their input queue forever, > and/or netfilters. The socket buffer's contain a reference for > packets in flight. Surely the sockets listen for the net-unregister event and clean themselves up??? An app shouldn't be able to hang the kernel like this... > 2. The VLAN code had a number of reference bugs, if you look through > recent netdev mailing list you will see the discussion. Could be VLAN code, but my debug patch seems to implicate the ref leaks in neighbor.c.... I also reproduced with another type of VLANs other than 802.1q... Ben -- Ben Greear <greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com