Re: system keeps freezing once every 24 hours / random apps crashing

From: Mark v Wolher
Date: Sun Jan 01 2006 - 13:53:20 EST


Folkert van Heusden wrote:
>>>Okay, here are the test results:
>>>- heavy load + nvidia (binary module) + bttv with grabdisplay = crash
>>>- heavy load + nv (not tainted kernel) + bttv with grabdisplay = crash
>>>- heavy load + nvidia (binary module) + bttv with overlay = OK
>>>- heavy load + nv (not tainted kernel) + bttv with overlay = OK
>>>Adding vmware on top of it will cause the system sooner to freeze/crash
>>>(using grabdisplay)
>>>So what you think guys?
>
>
> Just to add:
> something else is fishy: when I start iptraf (or some other traffic
> dumper) my system hangs up. repeatable. also with a bttv card which is
> occasionally used for grabbing videotext pages
>
>
> Folkert van Heusden
>

That could be an irq sharing issue i think. Do you use also grabdisplay
instead of overlay mode ?

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