Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2010 06:45:28 +0000 From: "b. f." <bf1783@googlemail.com> To: Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Runaway intr, not flash related Message-ID: <AANLkTim6DVCR-HKyt3cTJtmqEbSAO6wPzxR4hrbhev19@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4C675F64.9080205@FreeBSD.org> References: <AANLkTinZO8HCORxWjg-joWs=XAbjv-KU07aZWRR27E0O@mail.gmail.com> <4C675F64.9080205@FreeBSD.org>
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On 8/15/10, Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org> wrote: > On 08/14/2010 09:54, b. f. wrote: >>> My "runaway intr" problem with flash has been continuing all >>> along, but since no one has been interested in helping with it I >>> haven't reported it for a while. However, today, for the first >>> time, it happened when I had not run flash at all since I booted. >>> >>> My system: Dell D620, C2D, i386, SMP, r210908 >>> >>> swi4: clock is the culprit again this time, but when flash >>> triggers this problem I sometimes see hdac as the culprit, FYI. > The problem happens MOST often when I'm viewing a flash video, but it > can also happen other times. Interestingly, what often happens is that > everything is fine while I'm viewing the video, but intr runs away after > I close the window. I was sort of surprised by this myself, but now I > have verified it numerous times. > > It happens without running flash (as I pointed out in this message) and > last night I was able to trigger it several times without running X at all. > > The usual device that runs away is the clock, but sometimes (about 1 in > 20) it's hdac. > What were you doing when you triggered the interrupt problem without running X? Was there a lot of network, audio device, or disk activity at the time? Are these failures without X consistently reproducible, or unpredictable? Can you remember the revision number of the last version of -CURRENT that didn't have these problems? b.
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