Re: 2.6.29.1: unregister_netdevice problem

From: Alexander V. Lukyanov
Date: Mon Apr 27 2009 - 01:42:24 EST


On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 09:57:35AM +0400, Alexander V. Lukyanov wrote:
> unregister_netdevice: waiting for eth0.2 to become free. Usage count = 4
>
> eth0.2 is a vlan interface, eth0 is 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek
> Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
> controller (rev 01)

Ok, now I did manually 'vconfig rem eth0.2' and I get these repeated messages.
How do I find out what exactly holds the interface being used?

I have killed most of non-kernel processes, eth0.2 is still used. LA=1, but
the cpu is idle.

top - 09:34:26 up 4 days, 23:55, 2 users, load average: 1.00, 1.12, 3.55
Tasks: 56 total, 1 running, 55 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 0.2%us, 0.2%sy, 0.0%ni, 99.7%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 3356308k total, 1165044k used, 2191264k free, 443536k buffers
Swap: 3212920k total, 712k used, 3212208k free, 493568k cached

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Alexander..
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