[FIXED] Re: ppp problems

Sarunas Vancevicius vsarunas at eircom.net
Sat Oct 16 08:58:36 PDT 2004


On 21:01, Fri 15 Oct 04, Matthew Dillon wrote:
>     I believe I have fixed the pppd infinite loop problem.
> 
>     It turns out that some of the network protocol stack work we did caused
>     a tty placeholder token function to be called incorrectly, resulting in
>     the tty code believing that there was data pending (hence pppd's select()
>     would return instantly) even though there was in fact no data pending
>     in the ppp line discipline's packet queue.
> 
>     I have committed the patch and slipped the DragonFly_Stable tag.  The
>     patch is included below.
> 
> 						-Matt

Yep, you have fixed it, the huge CPU usage is gone.

Thanks Matt,

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Sarunas Vancevicius





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