Re: Bridging woes after 3 days

[Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@xxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 29 Nov 2003 15:14:08 +0530 (GMT+05:30)
anand@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (SVR Anand) wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> After a continous run for 3 days the bridge came down crashing with the
> following kernel panic screen dump. The kernel is 2.6.0-test9-bk25 with
> kernel preemption disabled. 
> 
> The following call stack is what I have seen on the console. The ethernet
> cards are RTL8139. Please let me know if you want more information or finer
> debugging method, I will pass it on when the bridge fails the next time.

Can you hook a serial console to catch the precise wording?

Also if you save copies of /proc/slabinfo on a regular interval (like per hour),
then it is possible to see if there is a memory leak.