Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 10 Feb 2006 16:00:54 -0500 | From | Gene Heskett <> | Subject | Re: CD-blanking leads to machine freeze with current -git [was: Re: CD writing in future Linux try #2 [ was: Re: CD writing in future Linux (stirring up a hornets' nest) ]] |
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On Friday 10 February 2006 15:12, Kyle Moffett wrote: >On Feb 10, 2006, at 14:39, Gene Heskett wrote: >> On Friday 10 February 2006 14:19, Phillip Susi wrote: >>> Marc Koschewski wrote: >>>> I just tried blanking a CD-RW with the latest -git tree. The >>>> machine just became unresponsive and then froze. When it became >>>> unresponsive the clock in GNOME still displayed the current time >>>> but I could not focus any windows anymore. Then I had to hard >>>> reboot the machine. The logs say nothing. I repeat: nothing. >>>> >>>> Does anyone have similar problems? >>> >>> Instead of rebooting, just wait for the blanking to finish. My >>> guess is that your burner and hard drive are both on the same ide >>> channel, and so you can not access the disk while the burner is >>> blanking. If this is the case, put each drive on their own ide >>> channel. >> >> It takes hard drive access to switch window focus? Yes, thats a >> question. > >Depends on your programs and RAM. If the program you try to switch >to (or, say, part of X or your window manage) is swapped out for some >reason, then yes, changing focus may cause said program to hang until >it can swap the data in. Usually that's a small fraction of a >second, but if your IDE bus is waiting for a burn, then it could be >the duration of the burn. > >Cheers, >Kyle Moffett > Entirely possible I suppose, but I've seen it here quite a few times when there was no swap involved, I've a gig of ram, so I would, just on the evidence, have to assume something went gaga and its time to hit the reset button. cd blanking here is a just a few seconds operation generally as I don't normally do the whole disk, thats a waste of time.
I've seen swap used here only one time since I rebuilt with a gig of ram nearly 2 years ago now. Uptime about 2 days, memory according to htop is 384 megs used.
>-- >Premature optimization is the root of all evil in programming > -- C.A.R. Hoare
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