Re: 2.4.0-test8 timing problems?

[Robert R. <ro...@pl...>]

  Hi!

On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 07:32:19PM +0200, Roman Zippel wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> We solved that problem now (I forgot to include the mailing list in the
> reply). The problem was that the hw clock was called too often in a short
> period (this part was btw introduced in test7).
> 
> >  Frank Petzold reported on IRC that lp is broken in test7 (as well as scsi
> > emulation). In self made test5 i couldn't even load modules (modprobe keeps
> > saying that device is busy; admitedly it;s realy high possible that i screwed
> > something with modules as i was adding them later)
> 
> Hmm, according to the linux-kernel list we're not the only people that
> have a problem with scsi emulation... :-)
 what about printing ? under test8 it's screwed badly. Text gets printed
roughly ok but postscript or anything like that gets messy at random points
(the best what i could achieve is half page ok and than some garbage <<like
semigraphic chars>> than some part of printout then garbage <<it wasn't even
complete>>)

 Can this be related to timing probs in some other (than time.c) part of
kernel?

 I also spotted that under some higher loads (like 7 or so) X tend to crash
with signal 7. What this implies ?

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