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Date:      Sun, 23 Apr 2006 01:05:25 -0700 (PDT)
From:      "R. B. Riddick" <arne_woerner@yahoo.com>
To:        Erin E Conn <econn@nc.rr.com>
Cc:        freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Rebooting problems with /dev/cxm0
Message-ID:  <20060423080525.38121.qmail@web30309.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
In-Reply-To: <444ADD11.9060104@nc.rr.com>

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--- Erin E Conn <econn@nc.rr.com> wrote:
> Actually, turns out the X server crashing was due to an xscreensaver 
> upgrade and it was crashing whenever the screensaver kicked in. I 
> reinstalled xscreensaver and that seems to have fixed it. It does appear 
> that my system is more stable using dd to /dev/null, and indeed cat to 
> /dev/null doesn't seem to cause any problems either. I got a lot of dma 
> buffer warnings when using a blocksize of 1 byte, but 1m seemed to be fine.
> 
Hmm... Does that mean, that the "dd" command can run for hours now?

If yes, I would do a "dd if=/dev/cxm0 of=/path/to/huge/filesystem/movie.mpg
bs=1m" for some hours (if the resolution is 720x576 it produces 4GB/h)...

-Arne

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