On Thu, 6 Sep 2001, Fabrice Bellet wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 11:57:38AM -0700, Mark Vojkovich wrote:
> > On Mon, 6 Aug 2001, Fabrice Bellet wrote:
> >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > Here is a crash dump with my G450/smp/xinerama XFree86
> > > config, running latest CVS sources :
> >
> > I can't see anything wrong with this trace. My first guess
> > is this is a 2.3/2.4 Linux SMP kernel bug. If it crashes every
> > few hours and fairly reliably but has no problems under 2.2 SMP
> > or 2.4 UP then that's probably what it is.
>
> I confirm that these random crashes only happen under 2.4SMP kernel.
>
> I ran a 2.4UP kernel instead, and now X has over 600 minutes usertime
> without problem, with a xscreensaver running in the background.
>
> So, the next question is : how can I track this smp problem ? :-)
I always thought these were kernel bugs, but H.J. Lu, who's
opinion I trust, is running XFree86 4.X with Xinerama and two
NVIDIA cards and bleeding edge 2.4 SMP kernels and he says he
has no problems. He suggested compiler/libC/kernel mismatches
may be the cause.
Mark.
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