From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Aug 30 7:33:22 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from cartman.techsupport.co.uk (cabletel1.cableol.net [194.168.3.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B366137B406 for ; Thu, 30 Aug 2001 07:33:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ceri@techsupport.co.uk) Received: from ceri by cartman.techsupport.co.uk with local (Exim 3.31 #1) id 15cSsX-0002WZ-00; Thu, 30 Aug 2001 15:33:09 +0100 Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 15:33:09 +0100 From: Ceri To: Mike Meyer Cc: Hajimu UMEMOTO , varju@webct.com, stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Freezes in 4.4RC on SMP Kernel and gkrellm Message-ID: <20010830153309.A9316@cartman.techsupport.co.uk> Reply-To: setantae@submonkey.net References: <15245.28607.676147.717891@guru.mired.org> <20010829155138.F60349-100000@snapple.webct.com> <15245.51106.120852.616240@guru.mired.org> <20010830.222356.125820097.ume@mahoroba.org> <15246.19717.31335.194978@guru.mired.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <15246.19717.31335.194978@guru.mired.org>; from mwm@mired.org on Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 09:26:13AM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 09:26:13AM -0500, Mike Meyer said: > Hajimu UMEMOTO types: > > >>>>> On Wed, 29 Aug 2001 23:57:06 -0500 > > >>>>> Mike Meyer said: > > mwm> Turns out that gkrellm can be *very* hazardous to your system. I've > > mwm> got a situation where the system panics every time I start gkrellm. I > > mwm> believe this is a bug in gkrellm, not in the system. > > I didn't thought this thread lead to GKrellM problem. X-( > > Well, if I leave gkrellm off, the system doesn't freeze. I'm not sure > what the exact cause is, but it seems to be related to > plugins. > > The approach I've been looking at is to replace the sensors builtin > with a plugin that access healthd - except I think the problems may be > related to plugins :-(. For what it's worth, I've been seeing the exact same thing while running X + gkrellm on my SMP system. Thing is I don't even have healthd installed, so I don't know that it's related to that. When I get home I'll send a list of the plugins I _am_ using if it will be of help. Ceri -- We've tried this God stuff long enough. It's time for a change. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message