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On Mon January 13 2003 22:34, Joshua M. Kwan wrote: > > Lately, using the nForce IDE driver I have noticed a few glitches with > it that affect stability. > > I use the BK tree for my kernel source. Lately, if I 1) clone a fresh > tree (i pull from a few places so sometimes there are some boggling > conflicts that a fresh tree fixes) or 2) run a bk pull, X will SEGV out > of nowhere. At first I thought it was the amount of disk activity. > > But after reading the saga of the flukey tty code in the kernel, I am > thinking this could also be because of that? Lots of stuff scrolls by > when doing a bk clone, and when resolve runs after a bk pull there is > often lots of output. > > There is no oops at all, nor anything that might be of help in dmesg. > Any ideas? I started noticing it around halfway through 2.5.56... > You could just do something like while true do cat /usr/src/linux/MAINTAINERS done and see if that kills it. If so then yeah, it could be a tty thing. If not then it may be mm/fs/vm/harware related. Confirm that by running dbench/tiobench/etc. Basically: separate it out, eliminate some variables. The most valuable thing you can do is to narrow it down to a particular changeset. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | |||||||||
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