Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2009 19:05:26 +0200 From: Juergen Lock <nox@jelal.kn-bremen.de> To: "Sean C. Farley" <scf@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.org, Juergen Lock <nox@jelal.kn-bremen.de> Subject: Re: nspluginwrapper patch for testing Message-ID: <20090806170526.GA10971@triton.kn-bremen.de> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0908061106150.1521@thor.farley.org> References: <20090628082701.GA34665@triton.kn-bremen.de> <200908061418.36989.tijl@ulyssis.org> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0908060807160.4271@thor.farley.org> <200908061710.39039.tijl@ulyssis.org> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0908061106150.1521@thor.farley.org>
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On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 11:14:22AM -0500, Sean C. Farley wrote: > On Thu, 6 Aug 2009, Tijl Coosemans wrote: > > > On Thursday 06 August 2009 15:15:10 Sean C. Farley wrote: > >> On Thu, 6 Aug 2009, Tijl Coosemans wrote: > >>> On Thursday 06 August 2009 12:14:10 Boris Samorodov wrote: > >>>> On Thu, 6 Aug 2009 10:59:21 +0200 Tijl Coosemans wrote: > >>>>> Can this be committed before the 8.0 ports freeze? > >>>> > >>>> According to the list this solution appears to be helpful, > >>>> so the answer is "yes" (or rather "should"). > >>>> > >>>> Can you provide a commit log? > >>> > >>> Limit the stack size for plugins. Linux glibc threading behaves > >>> slightly differently with a smaller stack size and the Flash plugins > >>> rely on this behaviour. > >>> > >>> Suggested by: dchagin > >>> Patch by: nox > >> > >> Also, it helps for running Google Earth. Until I limited the stack > >> size for it, it would crash if I zoomed in too close to the Earth. > >> It still crashes for me when exiting Google Earth, but I am able to > >> live with that. This is when running on i386 7-STABLE with the > >> Nvidia driver v185.18.29. > > > > You mean a similar patch should applied to the google-earth port? > > I am not sure. It helps me, but I do not know if my case is peculiar. > I do not have this problem on an amd64 7-STABLE (same revision as above) > using the radeonhd driver. However, on the amd64 system, the RV610 chip > does not have hardware acceleration at this time. Can anyone replicate > my problem? Already committed. :) (As Linux has a smaller stack by default iiuc its unlikely to hurt, and it _seems_ to help against the hangs/deadlocks I got which I used to work around by forcing googleearth onto a single cpu too.) Thanx, Juergen
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