Date: Tue, 10 Mar 1998 22:14:42 +1030 From: Matthew Thyer <thyerm@camtech.net.au> To: shimon@simon-shapiro.org Cc: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG, Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Subject: Re: silo overflows (Was Re: 3.0-RELEASE?) Message-ID: <350527AA.3139AD63@camtech.net.au> References: <XFMail.980304213426.shimon@simon-shapiro.org>
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My silo overflows seem to have disappeared. Unfortunately I've just changed 4 things at once! - I recompiled XFree86 3.3.1 (NOT 3.3.2) recently (whilst running a system built from CTM src-cur.3261 [Feb 23] sources) - I've just made the world at CTM src-cur.3281 [8 Mar 1998 23:07:21 -0800 (PST)] - I've turned on SoftUpdates on all but the root fs. - And I've taken Option "pci_retry" out of my /etc/XF86Config file. ** Did anyone change anything that could stop silo overflows between CTM src-cur.3261 and CTM src-cur.3281 ? ** Personally I think this is the key but have not the time to try it now (ie I am downloading XF86 3.3.2 in an xterm and thus cant restart X for a while). Simon Shapiro wrote: > > On 05-Mar-98 Nate Williams wrote: > >> > However the driver has no say in the matter when _someone_else_ > >> > disables interrupts for a long period of time, or when the hardware > >> > fails to deliver them in the first place. > >> > >> Unless I misunderstand something, the driver should get interrupts > >> delivered, unless another part of the kernel is in spltty(), or another > >> spl > >> which masks spltty. There should not be all that many of those, and > >> they > >> should be considered carefully. > > > > I can tell you that uniquivocally XFree86 causes this to happen. Why, I > > don't know, but it's definitely X related. If I don't use X and the > > machine gets the same traffic, I get the messages. If I switch from > > XFree8 to XIG, the messages go away. > > > > What is causing the interrupts to go away, I don't know, but it might be > > syscons or something. I'm not switching vty's, and neither am I hitting > > the caps-lock or causing the LED's to switch. > > > > But, it occurs none-the-less. > > I am guessing it is something to do with the S3 chip. The Mach64 I finally > pulled out was much worse. It would die/kill serial ports. I think the > problem is there and in the FAST_INTR stuff. Now I am going to get myself > in trouble all over again :-) > > Simon > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message -- /=====================================================================\ |Work: Matthew.Thyer@dsto.defence.gov.au | Home: thyerm@camtech.net.au| \=====================================================================/ "If it is true that our Universe has a zero net value for all conserved quantities, then it may simply be a fluctuation of the vacuum of some larger space in which our Universe is imbedded. In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is simply one of those things which happen from time to time." E. P. Tryon from "Nature" Vol.246 Dec.14, 1973 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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