Re: Why my computer freeze completely with xawtv ?

Con Kolivas
2004-11-08T00:08:26Z

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Gregoire Favre wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 08, 2004 at 10:53:46AM +1100, Con Kolivas wrote:
>
> Hello again :-)
>
>
>>Gregoire Favre wrote:
>>
>>>I use DVB with VDR, but I can do the crash all the time without VDR, all
>>>I have to do is to have xawtv running and having a process that write
>>>fast enough data to an HD (I tested xfs, reiserfs, ext2 and ext3 with
>>>same result). If I don't have xawtv running I can't make crashing my
>>>system which is rock stable :-)
>>
>>Is xawtv running as root or with real time privileges? That could do it.
>
>
> Normally I start xawtv this way:
> xawtv -c /dev/v4l/video0 -geometry 770x580-0-0 -xvport 61 & as a normal
> user, but I don't know what real time privileges are ?
> I haven't modified in any way xawtv :
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 243K Oct 12 09:36 /usr/bin/xawtv

What does 'top' show as the PRI for xawtv?

Con

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