Bug 501208 - hald causes mouse and keyboard stalls
Summary: hald causes mouse and keyboard stalls
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: hal
Version: 10
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
medium
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Assignee: Richard Hughes
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2009-05-18 02:26 UTC by Benjamin LaHaise
Modified: 2018-01-23 16:40 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2009-12-18 09:26:57 UTC
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Description Benjamin LaHaise 2009-05-18 02:26:20 UTC
Description of problem:

While bringing up 1000 network interfaces, hald consumes 100% CPU for extended periods of time 

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

hal-0.5.12-14.20081027git.fc10.i386

How reproducible:

Always.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. bring up 1000 network interfaces
2. watch system become unusable
  
Actual results:

System stutters and pauses for 10-20 seconds at a time.

Expected results:

System should remain responsive to keyboard and mouse.

Additional info:

scripts available upon request.  Profiling shows 44% of hits in strcmp() pointing to a scalability bug in hald.  Doing a killall -9 hald results in a perfectly usable system while re-running the test.

Comment 1 Scott Glaser 2009-09-09 13:53:40 UTC
Have you tried with the latest hal package in Fedora 10, Fedora 11 or tried Rawhide? In either case, can you let us know whether the issue is still happening, and give the current version of the HAL packages you're using?

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Comment 2 Bug Zapper 2009-11-18 11:58:26 UTC
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Comment 3 Bug Zapper 2009-12-18 09:26:57 UTC
Fedora 10 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2009-12-17. Fedora 10 is 
no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further 
security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug.

If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of 
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Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed.

Comment 4 Benjamin LaHaise 2018-01-23 16:40:23 UTC
This never got fixed.  Please just kill the reminders off this bug


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