Just FYI: GeForce 7800 GT on a PowerMac Quad-core G5 with a 2560x1440 display: [mi] EQ overflowing

[Jukka Ukkonen]

On 2014-09-08 11:47, Mark Millard wrote:
> FYI: The GeForce 7800 GT on a PowerMac Quad-core G5 with a 2560x1440 display (ADC with converter to DVI) reports the following
>
> [mi] EQ overflowing.  Additional events will be discarded until existing events are processed.
> [mi] These backtraces from mieqEnqueue may point to a culprit higher up the stack.
> [mi] mieq is *NOT* the cause.  It is a victim.
> [mi] Increasing EQ size to 512 to prevent dropped events.
> [mi] EQ processing has resumed after 51 dropped events.
> [mi] This may be caused my a misbehaving driver monopolizing the server's resources.

This may be a more generic problem and not really related to PowerPC 
environments
only. I have seen similar mi-complaints on a 12 core AMD64 system with a 
Radeon GPU
running 10-stable.
These problems have only occurred after the introduction of VT-consoles 
and KMS enabled
X11.

Cheers,
--jau