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Date:      Fri, 2 Nov 2007 12:52:33 -0800
From:      Beech Rintoul <beech@freebsd.org>
To:        freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: maintained compat.linux.osrelease versions (was: Re: Skype's 2nd process hogging CPU...)
Message-ID:  <200711021252.46943.beech@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <20071102192022.02853d42@meijome.net>
References:  <20071102094617.1e29bd52@meijome.net> <30290510@srv.sem.ipt.ru> <20071102192022.02853d42@meijome.net>

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On Friday 02 November 2007, Norberto Meijome said:
> On Fri, 02 Nov 2007 09:21:53 +0300
>
> Boris Samorodov <bsam@ipt.ru> wrote:
> > > It's happened with compat.linux.osrelease both set to 2.6 and
> > > 2.4.20.
> >
> > Not an answer to the question, but... There are two
> > compat.linux.osrelease values that are maintained by linux
> > kernel team for now. They are 2.4.2 (the default one) and
> > 2.6.16 (is going to be a default for HEAD and RELENG_7 in
> > the future).
> >
> > Other values are not _tested_/maintained/supported by the
> > linux emulation team.
> >
> > Though that doesn't mean *someone* can't maintain/support
> > those values. ;-)
>
> Of course, good point. I was just following ports/UPDATING in this
> regards.
>
> BTW, I've had this happen again while simply going for a cup of tea
> - definitely under 5 minutes. i got it at the start of the cpu
> spike - i could see in the gkrellm2 cpu graph precisely where it
> jumped up. CPU was 159% on this extra process.
>
> I've had several lockups on the machine ... I havent been able to
> pin it down to skype.. BUT
>
> I've since rolled back to my skype 1.2 package, and I've been
> running with no lockups for 7 hours with no lockup (compared that
> to 4 lockups in the same time with skype 1.4. Again, it could be a
> number  of things, i'm still trying to narrow it down...)
>
> Cheers,
> B

I'm definitely interested to know what you find out. I have it running 
on a 6.x box and haven't seen any of the problem you describe. I was 
a bit hasty in committing it to the main port, but having it 
as -devel seems appropriate given the fallout. 

Beech

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