From owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 8 12:41:12 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3BAC1DC6 for ; Mon, 8 Sep 2014 12:41:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-lb0-x231.google.com (mail-lb0-x231.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:4010:c04::231]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B78521826 for ; Mon, 8 Sep 2014 12:41:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-lb0-f177.google.com with SMTP id l4so4036666lbv.8 for ; Mon, 08 Sep 2014 05:41:09 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=gqocMSyDOW4A6e1LmAzSYPatG4w3TkhYn9XFlhLNfqY=; b=ov8Nj0HUPsWIy/g5RbbymnzNKrjqSnn26kjIwJbsrbHTPjC4zyDl8/l0sFn/N2Wc9O Bz/ur4JxIxtQtbwrPxzxrBqELiuigLQDyYkXZFgr+u9Xx/usXQw5GpLnwDJkJPuG8Gwv ZRsfT99+jhVh/EcF6jx1giXemf9WOrzxNjbKPC6LpAW/38Vfkt1Iz4vn1VJ6bwb9JXwc Tfn1s9+5/lx82SFRN/rl6m0N86x2wrJbxTwmFOB4Bld0gV12yRDYJ+lE6WrBIdp6jliL mHKC7b1En8FA58vX73esdOxCS/t4GC6axSPTgFg2nrE7ZRJFfs+AkOa3yKfrCbAfPKR1 x8ZQ== X-Received: by 10.112.62.229 with SMTP id b5mr27079953lbs.60.1410180068640; Mon, 08 Sep 2014 05:41:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.197] (xdsl-205-163.nblnetworks.fi. [83.145.205.163]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id bw3sm3519917lbd.14.2014.09.08.05.41.07 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Mon, 08 Sep 2014 05:41:07 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <540DA3DB.9080200@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2014 15:40:59 +0300 From: Jukka Ukkonen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.9; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Just FYI: GeForce 7800 GT on a PowerMac Quad-core G5 with a 2560x1440 display: [mi] EQ overflowing References: <508DA417-7E82-4E4B-B1F4-8A0309F5227A@dsl-only.net> In-Reply-To: <508DA417-7E82-4E4B-B1F4-8A0309F5227A@dsl-only.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the PowerPC List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2014 12:41:12 -0000 On 2014-09-08 11:47, Mark Millard wrote: > FYI: The GeForce 7800 GT on a PowerMac Quad-core G5 with a 2560x1440 display (ADC with converter to DVI) reports the following > > [mi] EQ overflowing. Additional events will be discarded until existing events are processed. > [mi] These backtraces from mieqEnqueue may point to a culprit higher up the stack. > [mi] mieq is *NOT* the cause. It is a victim. > [mi] Increasing EQ size to 512 to prevent dropped events. > [mi] EQ processing has resumed after 51 dropped events. > [mi] This may be caused my a misbehaving driver monopolizing the server's resources. This may be a more generic problem and not really related to PowerPC environments only. I have seen similar mi-complaints on a 12 core AMD64 system with a Radeon GPU running 10-stable. These problems have only occurred after the introduction of VT-consoles and KMS enabled X11. Cheers, --jau