Bug#500214: xorg: X freezes on high load (kernel seems to enter in deadlock)
Package: xorg
Version: 1:7.3+16
Severity: important
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X randomly freezes system. Bug is reproductible. I have written a
program that
does some fork(), each process using 1,7 GB. I have 4 GB of RAM and 6 GB for
swap. If I run this program under X, system quickly freezes (load average :
10). I don't see anything in log or in console. If I try to run the same
program without X, system does not freeze anymore (load average : greater
than 30).
cauchy:[~] > lspci | grep VGA
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc M76 [Radeon
Mobility HD
2600 Series]
I use official radeonhd driver.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26.5 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages xorg depends on:
ii gnome-terminal [x-terminal-em 2.22.3-2 The GNOME 2 terminal
emulator appl
ii libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl1] 7.0.3-5 A free implementation of
the OpenG
ii libglu1-mesa 7.0.3-5 The OpenGL utility library
(GLU)
ii mlterm [x-terminal-emulator] 2.9.4-4 MultiLingual TERMinal
ii rxvt-beta [x-terminal-emulato 2.7.10-6 VT102 terminal emulator for
the X
ii rxvt-unicode-ml [x-terminal-e 9.05-1 multi-lingual terminal
emulator wi
ii x11-apps 7.3+3 X applications
ii x11-session-utils 7.3+1 X session utilities
ii x11-utils 7.3+2 X11 utilities
ii x11-xfs-utils 7.3+1 X font server utilities
ii x11-xkb-utils 7.4+1 X11 XKB utilities
ii x11-xserver-utils 7.3+5 X server utilities
ii xauth 1:1.0.3-2 X authentication utility
ii xfonts-100dpi 1:1.0.0-4 100 dpi fonts for X
ii xfonts-75dpi 1:1.0.0-4 75 dpi fonts for X
ii xfonts-base 1:1.0.0-5 standard fonts for X
ii xfonts-scalable 1:1.0.0-6 scalable fonts for X
ii xfonts-utils 1:7.4+1 X Window System font
utility progr
ii xinit 1.0.9-2 X server initialisation tool
ii xkb-data 1.3-2 X Keyboard Extension (XKB)
configu
ii xserver-xorg 1:7.3+16 the X.Org X server
ii xterm [x-terminal-emulator] 235-1 X terminal emulator
Versions of packages xorg recommends:
ii xorg-docs 1:1.4-3 Miscellaneous documentation
for th
xorg suggests no packages.
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