From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 27 Jan 2001 19:44:04 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 27 Jan 2001 19:43:54 -0500 Received: from Huntington-Beach.Blue-Labs.org ([208.179.0.198]:19769 "EHLO Huntington-Beach.Blue-Labs.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 27 Jan 2001 19:43:50 -0500 Message-ID: <3A736B3E.BEBEAC34@linux.com> Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 00:43:42 +0000 From: David Ford Organization: Blue Labs Software X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.0-ac12 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: LKML Subject: Re: ps hang in 241-pre10 In-Reply-To: <3A724FD2.3DEB44C@reptechnic.com.au> <3A7295F6.621BBEC4@Home.com> <3A731E65.8BE87D73@pobox.com> <3A7359BB.7BBEE42A@linux.com> <94voof$17j$1@penguin.transmeta.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Linus Torvalds wrote: > In article <3A7359BB.7BBEE42A@linux.com>, David Ford > wrote: > > > >We've narrowed it down to "we're all running xmms" when it happend. > > Does anybody have a clue about what is different with xmms? Not sure. > Does it use KNI if it can, for example? We used to have a problem with > KNI+Athlons, for example. > > It might also be that it's threading-related, and that XMMS is one of > the few things that uses threads. Things like that. I'm not an XMMS > user, can somebody who knows XMMS comment on things that it does that > are unusual? If I was clued enough to know KNI, I could say for a certainty. I am assuming it's a form of MMX or related. My notebook is a mobile pII 366. I'm stress testing it now with ac12. I originally had pre9 on it. There is one difference other than that, I have Marcelo's bg aging patch on here which seems to have improved responsiveness significantly but I'll save that for another story. I've triggered it, report follows in next email. -d -- There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents. Thomas Jefferson The good thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from. Andrew S. Tanenbaum - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/