Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 28 Jun 1999 09:42:51 -0700 (PDT) | From | Joe <> | Subject | Re: strange problem in X...commonalities |
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So far it seems that the only commonalities that I have seen are the following:
1) XFree is running when the mouse goes into bezerk mode or XFreezes.
2) Some sort of TCP/IP protocal is being used (ppp / NFS, etc). I am assuming that this is a heavy use of the protocal, eg, on my machine an IRC program can make good use of tcp/ip, on a heavily loaded channel or multiple channels. I am not sure what NFS does with tcp/ip.(heavy load / light load?)
3) The kernel is SMP **NOTE that this is not necesarily a multiprocessor system, just a system running an SMP kernel.
I am told that if a program can crash a system that it is a kernel bug. I had one crash, others running nfs have had more I believe.
As there seem to be many people out there that are using egcs and not having problems with their systems it leads me to believe the following:
A) egcs is compiling the SMP - tcp/ip code incorrectly and causing it to flake out on occasion?
I do not think this is the case though as I have heard from someone (I think.. as I recevied lots of suggestions and mail) that said that they had this problem with gcc..
or
B) there are some bugs between tcp/ip stack and SMP that cause it to flake out? any UP machines having tcp/ip related problems that are causeing X to flake out or flaky mouse behavior in X?
or
C) there is an i/o bug in SMP? again any UP machine having I/O troubles?
or
D) there is a general tcp/ip and/or i/o bug that may not crash a system, but just cause it to flake out at some point?
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