From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Sep 4 18:24:24 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id SAA06406 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 4 Sep 1997 18:24:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nico.telstra.net (nico.telstra.net [139.130.204.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id SAA06394 for ; Thu, 4 Sep 1997 18:24:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (gregl1.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.133]) by nico.telstra.net (8.6.10/8.6.10) with ESMTP id LAA19663; Fri, 5 Sep 1997 11:22:43 +1000 Received: (grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.6.12) id KAA00860; Fri, 5 Sep 1997 10:52:29 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19970905105229.28743@lemis.com> Date: Fri, 5 Sep 1997 10:52:29 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren_Schmidt?= Cc: Johan Larsson , hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Current unusable :( References: <199709041512.RAA00285@sos.freebsd.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 X-Mailer: Mutt 0.81e In-Reply-To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=3C199709041512=2ERAA00285=40sos=2Efreebsd=2Edk=3E=3B_fro?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?m_S=F8ren_Schmidt_on_Thu=2C_Sep_04=2C_1997_at_05=3A12=3A0?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?0PM_+0200?= Organisation: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8250 Fax: +61-8-8388-8250 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Fight-Spam-Now: http://www.cauce.org X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by freebie.lemis.com id KAA00860 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id SAA06400 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, Sep 04, 1997 at 05:12:00PM +0200, Søren Schmidt wrote: > In reply to Johan Larsson who wrote: >> On Thu, 4 Sep 1997, Greg Lehey wrote: >>> On Thu, Sep 04, 1997 at 09:15:28AM +0200, Søren Schmidt wrote: >>>> I just found out that -current is hosed, try run the linuxulator and >>>> then start up a moderately big app (eg StarWriter), and the system >>>> just hangs no panic no nothing just a hang.... >>>> >>>> Seems this has been for awhile, a 970827 kernel fails too... >>> To follow up on my last message: after several minutes, StarWriter >>> came up as usual. Here's the critical part of the ktrace. If I had >>> time, I'd fix ktrace so that it would understand Linux system calls... >>> BTW, I was monitoring the connection to the outside world during this >>> time, since I suspected that it might be doing a DNS query, but that >>> doesn't seem to be the case. >> I still believe this actually can be the case. Since xquake won't work >> with network game any longer for me (haven't since around the 18-20/8 (I >> think :)). If anyone want a kdump mail me and i'll give you one. > > Hmm, I found out my problem is the XF86_SVGA server, it goes totally > wild when starwriter is run, causing the system to go into a tight > loop using all CPU cycles between system & user in the XF86_SVGA > process. If I use the XF86_S3V or Xaccel-2.1 (yes I'm on a ViRGE DX) > this problem does not surface. Yes, I'm using Xaccel on both systems, so that at least explains why the thing doesn't crash. > So its not our problem, it belongs in the XFree86 camp :) I wouldn't go that far. Do you get the thing to work with Xaccel? Have you tried displaying on a different server? Greg