Hi, I mean we destroy the sockets, we used two very basic python script to open and close TCP sockets between the WAN and LAN interface. Thanks for the hint, I will try those ! Br, Peter On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 11:33 AM, Florian Westphal <fw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Peter Marczis <peter.marczis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Hello developers, >> I'm seeking some help to debug and solve one of my issues. >> >> We observed that if we create 30k connections, everything works as >> expected, but when we start to disconnect them, >> conntrack (well not confirmed yet fully) makes the kernel side busy, >> and looks like no scheduling happens. > > What do you mean by 'disconnect'? conntrack -F ? > > My wild guss is you need to backport > > commit d93c6258ee4255749c10012c50a31c08f4e9fb16 > netfilter: conntrack: resched in nf_ct_iterate_cleanup > >> The whole thing works as expected, the only problem it makes our >> processes and well everything on user side hanging for a couple of >> seconds 10-30s, >> which of course triggers our HW Watchdog, and we end up in a reboot. > > You could try > > CONFIG_LOCKUP_DETECTOR=y > CONFIG_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR=y > -- Br, Peter G. Marczis SW. Developer +45 28 12 92 10 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html