RELENG_7 2008/01/10 desktop system also periodically freezes

[Ronald Klop]

On Sat, 12 Jan 2008 18:30:53 +0100, J.R. Oldroyd <fbsd at opal.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 11 Jan 2008 12:49:29 -0500, I wrote:
>>
>> I have yet to experience a "random" freeze not directly attributable
>> to a softupdate while running the lock profiling.  I am running with
>> lock profiling on, and resetting the profiling counters once a minute.
>> Yesterday and this morning, I've run for quite a while now with lock
>> profiling on but without a "random" freeze.  I'll wait some more, but
>> I'm hoping that enabling the lock profiling hasn't masked the freeze.
>> I'll post again when I see one..
>>
>
> It is looking more likely to me that enabling lock profiling does mask
> the freeze.  I ran for more than 10 hours yesterday with lock profiling
> enabled and did not observe a single freeze.  After about 7 hours, I
> stopped the lock profiling and within 20 mins or so, I experienced a
> NINE MINUTE freeze!!  On re-enabling the lock profiling, I ran for about
> 3 more hours with no further freezes.
>
> At the time of that long freeze, all I was doing was typing an email
> message.  The load average was almost 0.  Mail client is claws-email.
> Also running but idle were firefox, ical, several xterms, fvwm & its
> children (Fvwm{Buttons,Event,Pager,IconMan}), xload and xclock.  And
> xorg which uses the xf86-video-intel driver.  Daemons running were
> wpa_supplicant, dhclient, devd, syslogd, cupsd, ntpd, powerd, sshd,
> sendmail, cron, moused and xdm.  That is all.
>
> I had only one browser window open, the last page I'd viewed there
> was one containing some flash, I have linux-flash7 installed and
> nspluginwrapper to make that work in the native browser.
>
> All code (kernel, world and ports) have been compiled locally - there
> are no packages installed.  Kernel is RELENG_7 from two days ago,
> world and ports are about one month old.
>
> If I get time today I may have a go at getting schedgraph info
> instead of continuing with lock profiling.
>
> 	-jr

What version of xf86-video-intel? I'm having trouble since I upgraded  
xf86-video-i810, which is an older version of the intel driver, from 1.6.x  
to 1.7.x and a colleague had trouble with the 2.x version of the  
xf86-video-intel driver.
My trouble is a hanging system (I never waited for it to come back) and  
then ctrl-alt-F1 (to console) gives a panic a lot of times. I just  
prepared my machinde for a crash dump. So maybe next panic I have one.

Maybe downgrading to 1.6.x helps me again. After the next panic I'll try  
that. But maybe it helps you also.

I upgrade my RELENG_7 about every week, so it's fairly recent.

Ronald.

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  Ronald Klop
  Amsterdam, The Netherlands