Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 08:50:52 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> To: "J.R. Oldroyd" <fbsd@opal.com> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@freebsd.org>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 7.0BETA4 desktop system also periodically freezes Message-ID: <20080109195052.GA50586@osiris.chen.org.nz> In-Reply-To: <20080109141859.74d08743@linwhf.opal.com> References: <1199812249.96494.133.camel@predator-ii.buffyverse> <4783C8A8.2090705@raad.tartu.ee> <4783D41B.3000204@FreeBSD.org> <4783D748.1050401@raad.tartu.ee> <4783D824.1050502@FreeBSD.org> <4783DB72.6030605@raad.tartu.ee> <4783DCAA.1080108@FreeBSD.org> <4783EA7E.1050008@raad.tartu.ee> <4783ED15.1060606@FreeBSD.org> <20080109141859.74d08743@linwhf.opal.com>
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On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 02:18:59PM -0500, J.R. Oldroyd wrote:
[...]
> As I said, I have two systems here which exhibit this. Both systems
> here are 7.0BETA4. Different i386 hardware; both are UP systems; one is
> a fast 3200Ghz processor with 4GB ram, the other is a very slow
> processor with not much ram at all; the scheduler is SCHED_ULE on both;
> and the app mix includes basic servers:
> /usr/sbin/wpa_supplicant
> dhclient
> /sbin/devd
> /usr/sbin/syslogd
> /usr/local/sbin/cupsd
> /usr/sbin/ntpd
> /usr/sbin/powerd
> /usr/sbin/sshd
> sendmail
> /usr/sbin/cron
> /usr/sbin/moused
> /usr/local/bin/xdm (on the fast system only)
> /usr/local/bin/X
> and various end-user clients such as a WM and its children (including
> load graph and a clock), firefox, xterms, ical, nvi, etc.
I can only add that I see the same problem, with 7.0-PRERELEASE on a
i386/SMP running SCHED_4BSD. However, for me the problem seems to
manifest itself if I have installed graphics/gnash's flash web-browser
plugin for firefox; it doesn't seem to happen since I've taken it off
(so far). My wild-eyed guess is that it's related to threading, as
there's quite a few [gtk-gnash] processes on some flash-enabled
sites.
Cheers.
--
Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
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