Re: Why my computer freeze completely with xawtv ?

Con Kolivas
2004-11-08T00:38:09Z

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Gregoire Favre wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 08, 2004 at 11:08:11AM +1100, Con Kolivas wrote:
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>>>>>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.
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>>What does 'top' show as the PRI for xawtv?
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> I just started it and see 16 as priority in top. Should I renice it or
> start it another way ?

No I was just excluding whether you were running real time or not. You
are not, so that excludes that as the cause of your problem. I have no
further ideas though I'm afraid.

Cheers,
Con

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