Re: XFree86 process gets stuck in *Giant

From: Steve Kargl (sgk_at_troutmask.apl.washington.edu)
Date: 05/20/03

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    Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 11:30:41 -0700
To: current@freebsd.org

    On Tue, May 20, 2003 at 01:02:59PM -0500, Glenn Johnson wrote:
    > I have had this happen a couple of times since running -CURRENT (since
    > about the days of 5.0-RELEASE). My machine (an SMP box) will be
    > non-responsive, no graphics, no ability to use the mouse or keyboard.
    > Upon logging into another machine and using ssh to connect to the hung
    > machine, I can login to it, albeit very slowly. Upon running 'top' I
    > see that the XFree86 process is stuck in *Giant and using > 100% of the
    > CPU (according to top).
    >
    > The only way out is a reboot because if I kill the XFree86 process the
    > machine will completely die. Has anyone else seen this? Is there
    > something I can do to prevent it from happening?
    >

    Which scheduler are you using? ULE (supposely) has
    issues with SMP. 

    -- 
Steve
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