[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#693604: Bug#693604: avahi-daemon takes 100% CPU right after boot and at every restart of CUPS

[Michael Biebl]

severity 693604 serious
thanks

Am 20.03.2013 10:41, schrieb Hagen Fuchs:
> Package: avahi-daemon
> Followup-For: Bug #693604
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I can confirm that applying the patch mentioned above[0] directly on the
> Debian avahi-sources stopped these occurrences.  To be clear: Avahi
> /never/ recovers from these load excursions and stays at ~100% until
> killed.
> 
> In our environment of 39 print queues (about 30 physical printers) this
> had become rather a serious headache with multiple daily occurrences.  I
> wrote a rather desperate script that would minutely check for Avahi's
> well-being.  After applying the patch about two weeks ago, it (the
> script) recorded not one instance of permanent overload.
> 
> More tidbits: I have/had two servers exhibiting this behaviour (from a
> total of four).  They multicast into different subnets.  One is a x86_64
> KVM machine, the other a i686 OpenVZ container.  Also, the behaviour
> occurs in heavily MacOS-infes...frequented subnets.

Bumping the severity, I think this should be fixed for wheezy as it is a
rather nasty bug.
Will poke upstream if he has any concerns regarding the patch that was
posted [1]


Michael
[1] http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/avahi/2012-September/002188.html

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