Re: Why my computer freeze completely with xawtv ?

Gregoire Favre
2004-11-08T00:33:27Z

On Mon, Nov 08, 2004 at 11:08:11AM +1100, Con Kolivas 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.

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

I just started it and see 16 as priority in top. Should I renice it or
start it another way ?
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