Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 01:57:14 +1000 (EST) From: Peter Grehan <grehan@freebsd.org> To: Justin Hibbits <jrh29@alumni.cwru.edu>, freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: graphics on G4 Message-ID: <20081022015714.EKM92209@dommail.onthenet.com.au>
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Hi Justin, >An oddity I've found with FreeBSD/ppc on my G4 MDD -- >when I do anything with graphics, after a while the >whole machine just hangs when I try to spawn a new >process. It's not a deterministic problem, it just >happens 'eventually', but nearly 100% of the time it >does happen The framebuffer uses a large chunk of kernel VM when mmap'd. Are you able to dump some vm stats while doing this e.g. sysctl vm.kvm_free ? later, Peter.
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