Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 20:02:29 -0400 (EDT) From: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> To: obrien@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: XFree86 4.0.1 Message-ID: <14719.30658.265885.818087@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
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Well.. It seems that XFree86-4.0.1 is not without bugs. I've been using my home miata more intensely these days, and noticed that the X server still has problems. About 1/3 of the time, the X server will lock solid & will be unkillable unless you give it a kill -9, and then it doesn't release the console & you cannot restart X. When this is happening, its in a tight CPU bound loop, and its not making any system calls (according to ktrace). The other 2/3 of the time, it gets into a funky state where the screen is not being properly refreshed, but you can at least exit from it ;-) These feel like compiler bugs. I noticed that the XFree86-4 port is patching the OptimizedCDebugFlags to be ''. This reminded me of the problem that I diagnosed a few months ago where a person had a massively unstable system due to his setting CFLAGS to '-pipe' in /etc/make.conf (thereby omitting -O). I'm rebuilding XFree86-4 right now with OptimizedCDebugFlags set to -O to see if it improves things.. Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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