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Re: kernel preemption and segfault



On Fri, 2004-10-08 at 17:36, Vincent Bernat wrote:
> OoO Vers la fin de l'après-midi du jeudi 07  octobre 2004, vers 16:53,
> Mathieu Virbel <tito@bankiz.org> disait:
> 
> > With kernel preemption, all work perfectly.
> > Without kernel preemption, they are many bugs:
> > - under medium/high load, gcc crash randomly
> > - mozilla have trouble to render (each refresh show a new page)
> > - xmms segfault under medium/high load (sound crackle and segfault)
> > - mplayer too
> 
> I think you switched with and without.
> 
> > And on time, X freeze.
> 
> > Kernel preemption isn't usuable under linuxppc ?
> 
> The situation is going better but it is still not usable.

Can you try isolating a given activity or driver that cause the
stability problem ? It should work, really...

For example, try running without the cpufreq driver ... or without the
sound driver, etc...

Ben.




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