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- From: pep@wicked.demon.co.uk (Phil Packer)
- Path: sparky!uunet!pipex!demon!wicked.demon.co.uk!pep
- Subject: Re: [TCP/KERNEL] What does this syslog mean?
- Reply-To: pep@wicked.demon.co.uk
- References: <iu&vH+ap3c@atlantis.psu.edu>
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- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 22:50:47 +0000
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- In article <iu&vH+ap3c@atlantis.psu.edu> donadio@wilbur.psu.edu (Beaker) writes:
- > A strange this happened today. I was doing some remote X stuff (I had a
- > lot of windows open), and all of the sudden my hard-drive started churning.
- > I tried do fire up another shell and a remote login to my machine, but
- > couldn't because of the heavy disk activity. Syslog recorded this:
- >
- > Jan 24 15:28:35 mxd120 vmunix: tcp_readable, more than 20 packets without a psh
- > Jan 24 15:28:36 mxd120 vmunix: possible read_queue corruption.
- > Jan 24 15:28:36 mxd120 vmunix: tcp_readable, more than 20 packets without a psh
- > Jan 24 15:28:36 mxd120 vmunix: possible read_queue corruption.
- > Jan 24 15:28:36 mxd120 vmunix: tcp_readable, more than 20 packets without a psh
- > Jan 24 15:28:36 mxd120 vmunix: possible read_queue corruption.
- >
- > This same log was recorded continuously from 15:28:35 until 15:36:03. I
- > assume that all of this logging was the source of the drive activity but
- > am not sure what actually caused it? Any ideas?
- >
- > System specifics:
- > Linux 0.99pl4
- > XFree86 1.1
- > Western Digital Ethernet Card (8003 chipset)
- >
- > The remote X stuff was done on a SparcII running SunOS 4.1.1.
- >
- > --
- > Beaker aka Matt Donadio | Life is short, --- __ o __~o __ o
- > --------------------------| ride like ---- _`\<, _`\<, _`\<,
- > donadio@mxd120.rh.psu.edu | the wind. --- ( )/( ) ( )/( ) ( )/( )
- > donadio@wilbur.psu.edu |--------------------------------------------------
-
- Hmm...
-
- I have also had this trying to telnet in using a copy of Kermit v3.11 or
- v3.12 - in fact I have never bin able to telnet in from kermit (we use it at
- work to talk to all sorts of things - Altos, SCO, Vax, RS6000 with no
- problems)
-
- Phil..
-
- 0.99pl4
- 8meg
- 486/33 Opti chipset
- WD8003E and sometimes a WD8013
-
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