Gnome2 segv eats CPU when RAM - 1.5GB?
Joe Marcus Clarke
marcus at marcuscom.com
Wed Aug 20 19:10:04 PDT 2003
On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 19:52, supraexpress_spamyourself at globaleyes.net
wrote:
> If I install only 1.0GB of RAM, I have no problems with anything. When I
> install 1.5GB of RAM (all of the same chips, et cetera), gnome-segv all of
> sudden chews up something like 97% (or more) of the CPU and basically
> "goes nowhere". A couple times, Gnome2 would "more or less come up", but
> many, if not all, of the panel icons would be gone and the 'logout' button
> would not function.
>
> Is there something (un)magical about RAM > 1.0GB?
Nope, works fine on my 2 GB workstation. Always has. In fact, I'm
sending email from Evo 1.4.4 on that machine right now. Sounds like
that extra memory might be bad.
FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE #20: Fri Aug 15 01:42:27 EDT 2003
marcus at shumai.marcuscom.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SHUMAI
Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz
CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz (2386.56-MHz 686-class CPU)
Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0xf27 Stepping = 7
Features=0xbfebfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE>
real memory = 2146889728 (2096572K bytes)
avail memory = 2087297024 (2038376K bytes)
Joe
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