Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 16:09:19 -0500 (CDT) From: "Conrad J. Sabatier" <conrads@cox.net> To: Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net> Cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: [amd64] System lockups still continuing Message-ID: <XFMail.20040719160919.conrads@cox.net> In-Reply-To: <20040719202802.8E8C35D08@ptavv.es.net>
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On 19-Jul-2004 Kevin Oberman wrote: >> >> On 18-Jul-2004 Conrad J. Sabatier wrote: >> > I had posted several weeks ago about constant hard lockups of my >> > amd64 box. At first, I attributed the problem to GNOME, then to >> > my kernel config, but now it appears to me that the problem >> > really lies with Mozilla/Firefox. >> >> Well, another theory bites the dust. I tried running GNOME >> yesterday, never touched Mozilla or Firefox, and the system locked >> up while doing some file management chores in Nautilus. >> >> It must be something low-level in GNOME, some shared library, >> probably, but I have yet to track it down. > > I have lost track of the full thread and this mail list is not > tracked by google :-(, so this may have been ruled out. Are you sure > that it's not the preemption problem that is biting you? This applies > to CURRENT systems only, so may not be applicable to what you are > seeing, the symptoms are a match. Hmm, you may be right. Is there any workaround for this? I've tried both SCHED_ULE and SCHED_4BSD, both producing the same results. What's strange is that this only seems to occur when either running a full-blown GNOME desktop or using some GNOME-related app under another environment. I'm currently working under KDE, just for comparison, and no such problems have occurred, unless I try using, say, Mozilla or Firefox. I'll Cc: this to current and see what they think. -- Conrad J. Sabatier <conrads@cox.net> -- "In Unix veritas"
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