Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > i got one such message: > > KERNEL: assertion (!atomic_read(&sk->sk_rmem_alloc)) failed at > net/netlink/af_netlink.c (126) Interesting. I've seen one report about this assertion before yours. Unfortunately there was very little to go on there apart from the fact that vrrpd was involved. > this was on a box that is DSL connected and thus gets lots of trash > packets over the wire. It is running -RT ontop of 2.6.12-rc1, and got > this message after 2 days of uptime. This assertion can only be caused by netlink applications. What netlink applications do you use on this machine? Examples include ip(8), the ULOG target of iptables, vrrpd, etc. Cheers, -- Visit Openswan at http://www.openswan.org/ Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html