From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 5 13:16:35 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6792816A4CE; Thu, 5 Aug 2004 13:16:35 +0000 (GMT) Received: from speicher.org (speicher.org [208.199.76.238]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8BF443D5F; Thu, 5 Aug 2004 13:16:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from geoff@speicher.org) Received: from speicher.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by speicher.org (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i75DGTSL047796; Thu, 5 Aug 2004 09:16:29 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from geoff@speicher.org) Received: (from geoff@localhost) by speicher.org (8.12.11/8.12.11/Submit) id i75DGTpC047795; Thu, 5 Aug 2004 09:16:29 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from geoff) Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2004 09:16:28 -0400 From: Geoff Speicher To: Eric Anholt Message-ID: <20040805131628.GA47734@sirius.speicher.org> References: <1091649533.29481.42.camel@lanshark.dmv.com> <20040804203456.GA46377@parodius.com> <411152D8.2050305@alumni.rice.edu> <20040804213319.GB98953@sirius.speicher.org> <41115679.2030300@freebsd.org> <20040804220718.GA99590@sirius.speicher.org> <1091658373.893.15.camel@leguin> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1091658373.893.15.camel@leguin> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i cc: Scott Long cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Instant Reboots (was: Re: Postgresql locks up server - no response at all) X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2004 13:16:35 -0000 On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 03:26:13PM -0700, Eric Anholt wrote: > On Wed, 2004-08-04 at 15:07, Geoff Speicher wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 03:34:49PM -0600, Scott Long wrote: > > > Geoff Speicher wrote: > > > > > > >FWIW, in mid-late July, my problems were not PREEMPTION-related. I > > > >tried everything I could to get usable threaded apps under XFree86, but > > > >my Athlon XP rebooted every time I tried to run kdm, Firefox, etc. > > > > > > > >This included all four combinations of PREEMPTION and ULE/4BSD. Rolling > > > >back to July 1 was the only thing that worked for me. > > > > > > Yeah, the instant reboots have hit me too. Disabling PREEMPTION did > > > seem to help this for me, but then it might have been a coincidence. > > > Incidentally, what video drivers are you using? > > > > Snippets from /var/log/XFree86.0.log: > > > > (II) ATI: ATI driver (version 6.4.18) for chipsets: ati, ativga > > (--) RADEON(0): Chipset: "ATI Radeon VE/7000 QY (AGP)" (ChipID = 0x5159) > > (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/radeon_drv.o > > (II) Module radeon: vendor="The XFree86 Project" > > compiled for 4.3.0, module version = 4.0.1 > > Module class: XFree86 Video Driver > > ABI class: XFree86 Video Driver, version 0.6 > > > > (II) RADEON(0): [drm] loaded kernel module for "radeon" driver > > (II) RADEON(0): Direct rendering enabled > > Does this happen without using threaded apps? More specifically, does > it continue if you disable DRI in your X config? If so, please send me > your dmesg. Hey, disabling DRI did the trick. Aside from things being remarkably slow, it's remarkably stable. ;) Threaded X apps or no, I'm running a July 19 kernel with no instant reboots. PREEMPTION disabled, WITNESS enabled (I misspoke in another message when I said WITNESS was disabled---apparently I fiddled more than I had remembered). Toggling DRI back on and restarting X/kdm reboots immediately. Geoff