[Bridge] unregister_netdevice: waiting for br0 to become free.
Usage count = 1 (2.6.12.3)
Stephen Hemminger
shemminger at osdl.org
Thu Sep 1 09:24:53 PDT 2005
On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 23:33:22 -0700
Robert Scott <rbscott at axentra.net> wrote:
> > Two other recent reports are:
> > 1. Buggy applications that hold packets in their input queue forever,
> > and/or netfilters. The socket buffer's contain a reference for
> > packets in flight.
>
> that may be it, but I am not sure which queue you are talking about,
> but there is an application that is using the netfiler ip_queue to
> queue packets to user space. in this application, these packets can
> be held in user space for extended periods of time (up to 30/60
> seconds), and then they are either dropped or released. Could this
> possibly be creating a problem?
That could be it, ask Patrick McHardy, Harald, or netfilter-devel
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