Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 11:30:41 -0700 From: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> To: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: XFree86 process gets stuck in *Giant Message-ID: <20030520183041.GA79086@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <20030520180258.GA2768@node1.cluster.srrc.usda.gov> References: <20030520180258.GA2768@node1.cluster.srrc.usda.gov>
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On Tue, May 20, 2003 at 01:02:59PM -0500, Glenn Johnson wrote: > I have had this happen a couple of times since running -CURRENT (since > about the days of 5.0-RELEASE). My machine (an SMP box) will be > non-responsive, no graphics, no ability to use the mouse or keyboard. > Upon logging into another machine and using ssh to connect to the hung > machine, I can login to it, albeit very slowly. Upon running 'top' I > see that the XFree86 process is stuck in *Giant and using > 100% of the > CPU (according to top). > > The only way out is a reboot because if I kill the XFree86 process the > machine will completely die. Has anyone else seen this? Is there > something I can do to prevent it from happening? > Which scheduler are you using? ULE (supposely) has issues with SMP. -- Steve
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