Bug#500214: xorg: X freezes on high load (kernel seems to enter in deadlock)
reassign 500214 xserver-xorg-video-radeonhd
thank you
On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 11:35:17AM +0200, BERTRAND Joel wrote:
>
> 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).
Can you reproduce with latest radeonhd driver and xserver-xorg-core
from experimental?
We need send your config and log anyway (the log from after the
freeze would be the best).
Also, when the freeze occurs, can you ping the machine? If so,
can you ssh and run gdb to find out what the server is doing?
Brice
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