From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 26 17:58:24 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0899F106564A for ; Wed, 26 May 2010 17:58:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail2.fluidhosting.com (mx22.fluidhosting.com [204.14.89.5]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3F8B8FC13 for ; Wed, 26 May 2010 17:58:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 29123 invoked by uid 399); 26 May 2010 17:58:22 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO ?192.168.0.145?) (dougb@dougbarton.us@127.0.0.1) by localhost with ESMTPAM; 26 May 2010 17:58:22 -0000 X-Originating-IP: 127.0.0.1 X-Sender: dougb@dougbarton.us Message-ID: <4BFD613B.6050508@FreeBSD.org> Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 10:58:19 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: http://SupersetSolutions.com/ User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100317 Thunderbird/3.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kostik Belousov References: <4BFD4AE6.5040105@cs.rice.edu> <20100526165141.GF83316@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> In-Reply-To: <20100526165141.GF83316@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1 OpenPGP: id=1A1ABC84 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: alc@freebsd.org, Garrett Cooper , FreeBSD Current , Alan Cox Subject: Re: nvidia-driver 195.22 use horribly broken on amd64 between r206173 and X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 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: Wed, 26 May 2010 17:58:24 -0000 On 5/26/2010 9:51 AM, Kostik Belousov wrote: > > I did a quick glance over the driver, try this: > http://people.freebsd.org/~kib/misc/nvidia-vm_page_lock.1.patch > I did not even compiled the patched driver. Kostik, Thanks for taking a look at this! I sent the following to Alexey recently in regards to his query about whether or not the new version of the driver works. Maybe it will assist you: Good news, it was a simple version bump to upgrade to 195.36.24. Bad news, no improvement. Under very light load (X11 using openbox, Alpine mail client) it lasted about an hour. As soon as I started adding more stress (firefox, flash, etc.) it wedged after about 30 minutes (total uptime, 90 minutes). This was still on the old kernel that I've been using in combination with 195.22: FreeBSD dougb.net 9.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT #3 r207134: Thu Apr 29 23:14:20 PDT 2010 i386 The combination of the r207134 kernel and the 195.22 version of the driver has been very stable for me. If I try to go newer than that in either category I get lockups and/or panics. hth, Doug -- ... and that's just a little bit of history repeating. -- Propellerheads Improve the effectiveness of your Internet presence with a domain name makeover! http://SupersetSolutions.com/