From: "Pekka Enberg" <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
To: jplatte@naasa.net
Cc: "Günther Starnberger" <gst@sysfrog.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Userspace process may be able to DoS kernel
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 14:57:38 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <84144f020610120457g221b8736vebf2f0a634480c05@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200610121341.56325.lists@naasa.net>
On 10/12/06, Joerg Platte <lists@naasa.net> wrote:
> Hmmm, I deleted all my 2.6.16 kernels and I can't test a newly compiled 2.6.16
> kernel before the weekend. But if I remember correctly, on previous kernel
> versions skype just generates 100% system load when using the sound device
> after some time (especially after a resume) and stuttered audio but no system
> lockups. Hence, it worked much better than now from the kernel point of view
> but was not usable from the skype users point of view. It was a userspace
> only problem.
If that is the case, you can do git bisect to help us narrow down the
cause. See http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/howto/isolate-bugs-with-bisect.txt
for further details.
Pekka
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-10-12 11:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-10-11 16:54 Günther Starnberger
2006-10-12 6:02 ` Joerg Platte
2006-10-12 6:49 ` Willy Tarreau
2006-10-12 10:54 ` Joerg Platte
2006-10-12 11:30 ` Pekka Enberg
2006-10-12 11:41 ` Joerg Platte
2006-10-12 11:57 ` Pekka Enberg [this message]
2006-10-12 20:11 ` Joerg Platte
2006-10-12 20:25 ` Günther Starnberger
2006-10-13 13:24 ` Joerg Platte
2006-10-12 15:51 ` Lee Revell
2006-10-12 16:55 ` Günther Starnberger
2006-10-12 17:05 ` Lee Revell
2006-10-12 20:30 ` Günther Starnberger
2006-10-12 20:37 ` Lee Revell
2006-10-12 15:56 ` Lee Revell
2006-10-12 16:10 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-10-12 16:19 ` Lee Revell
2006-10-12 22:02 ` Jan Engelhardt
[not found] ` <200611100803.03958.lists@naasa.net>
[not found] ` <20061109231958.f18cd1ef.akpm@osdl.org>
2006-11-11 12:29 ` Joerg Platte
2006-11-11 12:39 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-11-11 13:15 ` Joerg Platte
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