Re: Cardbus notes

[Tim Darby <t-df@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Matthew Dillon wrote:

> :Then I tried removing the card and re-inserting it and that seemed to 
> :work (cool!), but is the line "last message repeated 153862 times" (see 
> :below) really right?
>
>    dhclient manages DHCP for the interface.  It usually sticks around
>    in the background in order to keep the lease renewed.
>
>    It sounds like the dhclient program is going into a tight loop
>    logging errors after you pulled the card.  That is definitely a bug.  It's
>    probably eating cpu.  Do a 'top' or 'systat -vm 1' to see.  You
>    can kill dhclient manually with something like 'killall -9 dhclient'.
>
>    Hmm.  Probably the best fix is to have dhclient exit when it gets a
>    device not configured error, since that means the device was pulled.
> 	
> 						-Matt
>  
Yep, 'top' shows that dhclient is averaging about 60 - 70 percent CPU 
with syslogd consuming the rest.

Thanks,
Tim