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Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 15:56:08 -0800 (PST)
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
To: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>
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On Thu, 14 Dec 2000, Stephen Frost wrote:
> 
> 	Any idea if these issues would cause a general slow-down of a
> machine?  For no apparent reason after 5 days running 2.4.0test12
> everything going through my firewall (set up using iptables) I got about
> 100ms time added on to pings and traceroutes.

Probably not related to that particular bug - the netfilter issue has
apparently been around forever, and it was just some changes in IP
fragmentation that just made it show up as an oops. 

A 100ms delay sounds like some interrupt shut up or similar (and then
timer handling makes it limp along).

		Linus

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