Re: Why my computer freeze completely with xawtv ?

From: Con Kolivas
Date: Sun Nov 07 2004 - 19:09:21 EST


Gregoire Favre wrote:
On Mon, Nov 08, 2004 at 10:53:46AM +1100, Con Kolivas wrote:

Hello again :-)


Gregoire Favre wrote:

I use DVB with VDR, but I can do the crash all the time without VDR, all
I have to do is to have xawtv running and having a process that write
fast enough data to an HD (I tested xfs, reiserfs, ext2 and ext3 with
same result). If I don't have xawtv running I can't make crashing my
system which is rock stable :-)

Is xawtv running as root or with real time privileges? That could do it.


Normally I start xawtv this way:
xawtv -c /dev/v4l/video0 -geometry 770x580-0-0 -xvport 61 & as a normal
user, but I don't know what real time privileges are ?
I haven't modified in any way xawtv :
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 243K Oct 12 09:36 /usr/bin/xawtv

What does 'top' show as the PRI for xawtv?

Con

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