From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 3 06:05:48 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 969FC16A420 for ; Fri, 3 Feb 2006 06:05:48 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jtyocum@charter.net) Received: from mxsf42.cluster1.charter.net (mxsf42.cluster1.charter.net [209.225.28.174]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CE3243D45 for ; Fri, 3 Feb 2006 06:05:47 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jtyocum@charter.net) Received: from mxip36a.cluster1.charter.net (mxip36a.cluster1.charter.net [209.225.28.251]) by mxsf42.cluster1.charter.net (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k1365kla003827 for ; Fri, 3 Feb 2006 01:05:46 -0500 Received: from 68-113-5-60.dhcp.ykma.wa.charter.com (HELO [10.0.25.254]) ([68.113.5.60]) by mxip36a.cluster1.charter.net with ESMTP; 03 Feb 2006 01:05:47 -0500 Message-ID: <43E2F2B8.5040205@charter.net> Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2006 22:05:44 -0800 From: "John T. Yocum" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7-1.4.1.centos4 (X11/20051007) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: dhclient wedged X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2006 06:05:48 -0000 I've been having a same sort of issue that others have reported. After dhclient has been running for a random length of time, it suddenly starts consuming a large amount of CPU. Unfortunately for me, the longest it tends to run is 48 hours before acting up. I did get it rebuilt with debug symbols, and got a stack trace from it, while it was acting up. Hopefully, it will be useful. Attaching to program: /sbin/dhclient, process 2248 Reading symbols from /lib/libc.so.6...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libc.so.6 Reading symbols from /libexec/ld-elf.so.1...done. Loaded symbols for /libexec/ld-elf.so.1 0x08051a0d in receive_packet (interface=0x8071000, buf=0xbfbfdc20 "\002\001\006", len=4096, from=0xbfbfec70, hfrom=0xbfbfec50) at /usr/src/sbin/dhclient/bpf.c:308 308 memcpy(&hdr, &interface->rbuf[interface->rbuf_offset], (gdb) bt #0 0x08051a0d in receive_packet (interface=0x8071000, buf=0xbfbfdc20 "\002\001\006", len=4096, from=0xbfbfec70, hfrom=0xbfbfec50) at /usr/src/sbin/dhclient/bpf.c:308 #1 0x08050dc1 in got_one (l=0x80741b0) at /usr/src/sbin/dhclient/dispatch.c:256 #2 0x08050d58 in dispatch () at /usr/src/sbin/dhclient/dispatch.c:228 #3 0x0804a0d0 in main (argc=1, argv=0xbfbfed3c) at /usr/src/sbin/dhclient/dhclient.c:429 BTW: For reference I'm running 6.0-RELEASE-p4. Thanks, John