Re: X under 2.2.3 [x86 users wanted]

Goofy McGoon (goofy@cool.bioeng.washington.edu)
Thu, 11 Mar 1999 12:20:23 -0800 (PST)


On Thu, 11 Mar 1999, Daniel J. Frasnelli wrote:
Running here SMP ppros with xfree. X runs a steady .5% cpu time according to
Top. Occasionaly elvis with termcap wil start hogging. Weird.

> Need some x86 users to watch the processor usage on their X
> process to see if it goes out of control under the straight (Linus branch)
> 2.2.3 kernel. 500Mhz DEC Miata w/128M brought to it's knees within 5
> minutes of starting X (XF86_3DLabs server) - 95% processor usage and
> above. Already know something is wrong from the strace, just need some
> x86 people to see if they also experience this problem.
> Thanks,
> Daniel
>
> The relevant strace dump of [pid X] is below for your convenience:
> read(3, 0x11ffff670, 64) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily
> unavailable)
> read(4, "\10", 64) = 1
> gettimeofday({921129889, 670900}, NULL) = 0
> select(128, [0 1 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11], NULL, NULL, {110, 994000}) = 1 (in
> [4], left {110, 994000})
> read(3, 0x11ffff670, 64) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily
> unavailable)
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