From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261715AbUKHAI0 (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Nov 2004 19:08:26 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261718AbUKHAIZ (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Nov 2004 19:08:25 -0500 Received: from mail25.syd.optusnet.com.au ([211.29.133.166]:4077 "EHLO mail25.syd.optusnet.com.au") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261715AbUKHAIX (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Nov 2004 19:08:23 -0500 Message-ID: <418EB8EB.30405@kolivas.org> Date: Mon, 08 Nov 2004 11:08:11 +1100 From: Con Kolivas User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (X11/20041103) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gregoire Favre Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Why my computer freeze completely with xawtv ? References: <20041107224621.GB5360@magma.epfl.ch> <418EB58A.7080309@kolivas.org> <20041108000229.GC5360@magma.epfl.ch> In-Reply-To: <20041108000229.GC5360@magma.epfl.ch> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.86.1.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig4D39C74F6DD1CACFEBC6DA16" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig4D39C74F6DD1CACFEBC6DA16 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Gregoire Favre wrote: > On Mon, Nov 08, 2004 at 10:53:46AM +1100, Con Kolivas wrote: > > Hello again :-) > > >>Gregoire Favre 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. > > > Normally I start xawtv this way: > xawtv -c /dev/v4l/video0 -geometry 770x580-0-0 -xvport 61 & as a normal > user, but I don't know what real time privileges are ? > I haven't modified in any way xawtv : > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 243K Oct 12 09:36 /usr/bin/xawtv What does 'top' show as the PRI for xawtv? Con --------------enig4D39C74F6DD1CACFEBC6DA16 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFBjrjrZUg7+tp6mRURAs6cAKCNCO/3qup5OdL7cCKHDaQnWM9cyACghrMz Fa2M3lbLuM1Wcb7wm8d36is= =ljqN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig4D39C74F6DD1CACFEBC6DA16--