Upgrade to 1.6.3

Michal bird at hudrydum.cz
Fri Dec 30 13:24:18 CET 2016


I'm using collectd netlink plugin to monitor traffic on those 
interfaces. I would expect it generates some netlink traffic, but not 
that big.

On 2016-12-30 13:15, Ondrej Zajicek wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 30, 2016 at 12:27:13PM +0100, Michal wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I was trying to upgrade my bird instance from v1.6.0 to v1.6.3 today.
>> Unfortunately immediately after start the bird started generating 
>> these
>> messages
>> ..
>> I can see the warning log line was added at Dec 20 2016, which ended 
>> up in
>> 1.6.3 release. Hence this was happening probably even before the 
>> upgrade,
>> but it was not visible.
> 
> Hi
> 
> That is true. We fixed a race condition leading to infinite loops and
> added this warning. But the issue triggering the warning was here even
> in older versions, just silent.
> 
>> So the question is simple. Does it means there is something terribly 
>> wrong
>> with my machine, or the high rate of this warning is expected?
> 
> We are not sure what causes such high rate of warnings on some 
> machines.
> Do you use something that could cause significant netlink traffic, e.g.
> conntrackd or ulogd?


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