From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Sep 4 23:36:38 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id XAA16107 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 4 Sep 1997 23:36:38 -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 XAA15966 for ; Thu, 4 Sep 1997 23:35:19 -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 QAA26578; Fri, 5 Sep 1997 16:34:06 +1000 Received: (grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.6.12) id QAA00761; Fri, 5 Sep 1997 16:04:03 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19970905160403.53603@lemis.com> Date: Fri, 5 Sep 1997 16:04:03 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren_Schmidt?= Cc: FreeBSD Hackers Subject: Re: Current unusable :( References: <19970905105229.28743@lemis.com> <199709050622.IAA01395@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?=3C199709050622=2EIAA01395=40sos=2Efreebsd=2Edk=3E=3B_fro?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?m_S=F8ren_Schmidt_on_Fri=2C_Sep_05=2C_1997_at_08=3A22=3A5?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?8AM_+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 QAA00761 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id XAA15997 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, Sep 05, 1997 at 08:22:58AM +0200, Søren Schmidt wrote: > In reply to Greg Lehey who wrote: >>>> 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? > > Just tried that, works pretty well, albeit slow. > It fails exceptionally well if I use the XF86_VGA server :) > Well the XFree86 group says that the ViRGE driver in XF86_SVGA is new > and raw, so I guess I asked for it.... Well, I tried again. Yes, it's some kind of DNS problem. Ever run tcpdump on the loopback interface? :-) tcpdump: listening on lo0 15:58:20.827404 freebie.lemis.com.1132 > freebie.lemis.com.domain: 36050+ A? freebie.lemis.com. (35) 15:58:20.828349 freebie.lemis.com.domain > freebie.lemis.com.1132: 36050* 1/3/3 A freebie.lemis.com (173) 15:58:21.954206 freebie.lemis.com.1133 > freebie.lemis.com.domain: 12023+ PTR? 137.197.109.192.in-addr.arpa. (46) 15:58:21.955195 freebie.lemis.com.domain > freebie.lemis.com.1133: 12023* 1/3/3 PTR freebie.lemis.com. (214) 15:58:26.094915 freebie.lemis.com.1134 > freebie.lemis.com.domain: 17952+ A? freebie.lemis.com. (35) 15:58:26.095738 freebie.lemis.com.domain > freebie.lemis.com.1134: 17952* 1/3/3 A freebie.lemis.com (173) 15:58:31.111972 freebie.lemis.com.1135 > freebie.lemis.com.domain: 17952+ A? freebie.lemis.com. (35) 15:58:31.112768 freebie.lemis.com.domain > freebie.lemis.com.1135: 17952* 1/3/3 A freebie.lemis.com (173) 15:58:41.134568 freebie.lemis.com.1136 > freebie.lemis.com.domain: 17952+ A? freebie.lemis.com. (35) 15:58:41.135338 freebie.lemis.com.domain > freebie.lemis.com.1136: 17952* 1/3/3 A freebie.lemis.com (173) 15:59:01.162085 freebie.lemis.com.1137 > freebie.lemis.com.domain: 17952+ A? freebie.lemis.com. (35) 15:59:01.162887 freebie.lemis.com.domain > freebie.lemis.com.1137: 17952* 1/3/3 A freebie.lemis.com (173) 15:59:41.193847 freebie.lemis.com.1138 > freebie.lemis.com.domain: 17953+ A? freebie.lemis.com.lemis.com. (45) 15:59:41.219415 freebie.lemis.com.domain > freebie.lemis.com.1138: 17953 NXDomain* 0/1/0 (103) 15:59:46.202378 freebie.lemis.com.1139 > freebie.lemis.com.domain: 17953+ A? freebie.lemis.com.lemis.com. (45) 15:59:46.202899 freebie.lemis.com.domain > freebie.lemis.com.1139: 17953 NXDomain* 0/1/0 (103) 15:59:56.221882 freebie.lemis.com.1140 > freebie.lemis.com.domain: 17953+ A? freebie.lemis.com.lemis.com. (45) 15:59:56.222395 freebie.lemis.com.domain > freebie.lemis.com.1140: 17953 NXDomain* 0/1/0 (103) It looks as if it's not able to handle the response correctly. Greg