Messages in this thread | | | From | "Nicholas R LeRoy" <> | Date | Tue, 21 Sep 1999 09:25:05 -0500 | Subject | Re: Oops report 2.2.12 w/ikd patch |
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Alan...
Thanks again for the help..
On Sep 20, 7:21pm, Alan Cox wrote: > Subject: Re: Oops report 2.2.12 w/ikd patch > > > Have you tried running other large memory hogging applications instead of > > > X ? > > > > Yeah... I wrote program which allocates large chunks of memory and pages > > through the buffers to keeps circulating buffers to swap. Ran straight > > for 48+ hours without a hitch, but the system did page A LOT. > > Ok > > > > My first suspicion is the Xserver. Its privileged enough to crash the > box. > > > Can you duplicate the problem if you run X with acceleration disabled ? > > > > I've tried several different X servers.. I've run xsvga, xs3 and xs3v. > > Do you think that running w/o accelleration would really make a difference? > > Its worth trying
Well... Configured to run XF86_SVGA with "noaccel" option last night (XF86_S3V does support noaccel AFICT). Dead by morning. :-( I'll attach the oops report in case it tells you anything. I even verified that the server reported the "noaccel" option when it fired up.
> > the fact that I've tried different servers AND different hardware to me > > *indicates* that the problem is elsewhere, but I suppose that they all > > share a large chunk of code, too. > > They do share a lot of code. Its also 1Mb of material I'd like to eliminate > from enquiries if possible 8) > > > on several occasions. If you need me to do something to help diagnose, > > I'd be more than willing. :-) > > The only other one I can think of is to hack your x setup so that you > use localhost:0 for all the X clients - ie so X isnt using unix domain > sockets
Didn't get to try this last night, unfortunately. My plans got interrupted, but I'll do it tonight. I'll also try upgrading to the absolute latest & greatest XFree86 servers.
Just thought of something that I *think* is unrelated. With latest kernels, I can't get my BusLogic FlashPoint LT to talk to my SCSI ZIP drive. Systems hangs hard when I try, sometimes during the probe. For now, I just replaced it with a BT-946C, which seems to work just fine. These symptoms are the same with my old MB and my new MB. Unless you think its related, I'll wait to solve this X hang thing before I talk to Leonard about this FlashPoint problem.
That's all I know for now. Thanks.
-Nick
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