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Subject: bin/2976: user ppp from 2.2-GAMMA acts strangely..
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>Number:         2976
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       user ppp from 2.2-GAMMA acts strangely..
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       critical
>Priority:       high
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Mar 13 02:50:01 PST 1997
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Zach Heilig
>Organization:
>Release:        FreeBSD 2.2-GAMMA i386
>Environment:

	

>Description:

The user ppp will at times use as much CPU as FreeBSD will give it.  I noticed
very early this morning when I turned the monitor on, and wondered why my
'make world' was still running (I had started it about 12 hours earlier, and
it was only about 20% done... my machine is not this slow :-).  I fired up a
top, and noticed ppp using practically all my CPU.  I killed it (it wouldn't
respond at the telnet port), restarted it, and did a few things on the net.  I
let it time-out again, and the ppp process started using all the CPU again
(and I killed it again and restarted it... now I'm writing this).  I noticed
this message on the console when I re-started it:

rtinit: wrong ifa (0xf217c980) was (0xf217cd00)

but it otherwise seems to work properly.  (that message or similar pops up
sometimes when ppp starts, but does not appear in the ppp source).

>How-To-Repeat:

I don't know, it seems to happen without much pattern.  It will be fine for
days, then it's eating too much CPU.

>Fix:
	
	
>Audit-Trail:
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