Oliver McFadden írta: > On 5/3/07, Zoltan Boszormenyi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> sorry for the crossposting, I don't know who to address. >> >> I am experimenting the new CFS scheduler on Linux >> and tried to start multiple glxgears to see whether >> they are really running smooth and have evenly >> distributed framerate. >> >> At first I could only start two instances of glxgears >> but the third didn't start saying that it cannot allocate >> GART memory and try to increase increase GARTSize. >> >> First problem: man radeon doesn't have anything about >> this option, although radeon_drv.so contains this keyword. >> I tried guessing whether the parameter is in MBs and >> have set it to 128 but it disabled DRI because of some >> out of memory condition. Setting it to 64 gave me working >> DRI and I am able to start up some more instances of >> glxgears. >> >> Second problem: if I start 16 of them, the last 3 >> behaves very strange, i.e. instead of the spinning gears >> I get chaotic flickering triangles. As soon as the number >> of glxgears goes down to 13 every window behaves >> normal. >> >> Third problem: starting up 32 glxgears locked up the >> machine almost instantly but having only 16 of them >> also locks up the machine after some time passed. >> >> The machine is x86-64, Athlon64 X2 4200, >> PCIe Radeon X700 with 128MB onboard memory, >> up-to-date Fedora Core 6. >> >> Best regards, >> Zoltán Böszörményi >> > > This is interesting. I've occasionally seen my engine just display a mess of > triangles, but if I was to kill it and start it again, it would work fine. > This > only happened very occasionally so I could never track down the problem. > > If running more than 13 glxgears shows the problem then maybe it would have a > chance of getting fixed. :) You might want to open a bug report on the > Freedesktop Bugzilla. >
BZ #10852 > The lockups are nothing new, unfortionally. I think there is a bug somewhere > in > the R300 driver. You can also get deadlocks which are a little different... I > think that these might go away after R300 uses TTM and thus doesn't grab the > hardware lock anymore for texture upload, etc. > Is the lockup happens with only multiple GL[X] clients? I can play hours with Diablo 2 :-) in Wine and it doesn't lock up. Best regards, Zoltán Böszörményi ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ -- _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list Dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
