Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sun, 24 Sep 2000 08:52:58 -0700 | From | John Kennedy <> | Subject | Re: 2.4.0-test9-pre6 shmem problems revisited |
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As a datapoint, I've had 2.4.0-test9pre6 up over 1.5 days doing some serious compiling for a piece of that (probably a good 6-8 hours, but I haven't timed it with my new AMD processor lately).
I'm running X 4.0.1. I don't know where the `c' and `d' bits you guys are talking about is coming from. This is the source and patches I grabbed off of XFree86's website.
I haven't seen any fatal lockups. In the past I've apparently been lucky since I'm running a 2.4.0.x kernel with 256MB of RAM and SMP on a non-SMP machine, but there is a reason I do that. (:
I was running 2.4.0-test9pre2 (no X at all) for 4 DAYS before that with no known problems.
Unfortunately, I'm running syslogd-ng-1.4.5 with seems to stop syslogging output after some period of time, so I can't tell if I'm catching all the warning messages that I might, even if they're not deadlocking me.
On Sun, Sep 24, 2000 at 01:21:40AM -0400, Mohammad A. Haque wrote: > I think there's problem in both the kernel and in X. Why? > > Work machine: > * test9-pre2 w/ X 4.0d ... uptime 5 days nothing reporting > shm errors like my other boxes. This machine gets hit pretty > hard when I'm on it. > > Co-worker's machine: > * 2.2.16 w/ X 4.0.1c ... getting reports of shm errors but no > lockups. This guy tortures his machine. > > Home machine: > * test7 w/ X 4.0.1c ... getting reports of shm errors but no > lockups > > * test9-pre* w/ X 4.0.1c ... can't stay up for more than a > couple hours before locking up. > > To do: > * Try test 8 > * Try X from about a week or two ago (or futher back if needed) > > > Not very scientific I know. But so far the thing I see in common is that > using kernels before test9-pre* with or without X 4.0.1c and your > machine wont lock up in a relatively short period of time. use > test9-pre* w/ X 4.0.1c and you're not gonna be up for more than a couple > hours. i may be lumping all the test9-pre versions in here when I > shouldnt be. > > > Like someone stated earlier, I think this is like the truncate bug. > Something has been changed that just brought this bug out to the front. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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