Re: [PROBLEM] Machine Freezes while Running Crossover Office

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>]

* Kyle Moffett <mrmacman_g4@mac.com> wrote:

> On May 30, 2005, at 13:31:07, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> >On Mon, 30 May 2005, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> >>It is not just X. Running the following shell script when hitting the
> >>bug:
> >
> >Ok, this implies that the scheduler is really screwed up, we're not
> >scheduling anything else during that time.
> 
> If X is hung and not accepting data on any of its sockets, then this 
> could hang the Xterm in the background, and therefore hang the 
> printout from the "date" process.  What happens if you do this?
> 
> Switch to VT 1:
> # while true; do date; sleep 1; done
> 
> Switch to X and trigger hang
> 
> Switch back to VT 1 and look at output

yes, this would be an important test. Even better, do:

	while true; do date; sleep 1; done > log.txt

to exclude any sort of console output as a source of delay.

	Ingo