Re: Why my computer freeze completely with xawtv ?

[Con Kolivas]

Gregoire Favre wrote:
> 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 ?

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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