[linux-dvb] Re: Total freezes

[Alistair Hamilton <alistair@eurgain.free-online.co.uk>]

On Wed, 2003-07-02 at 12:23, Johannes Stezenbach wrote:
> Alistair Hamilton wrote:
> > 
> > It is not the mplyer because the same thing happens if I direct the output 
> > of dvbstream to a file. It stops at around 1hour/2Gbyes of perfect stream.
> 
> Hm, is it *always* the 2G limit  (-> possible pointer arithmetic bug),
> or do the sizes vary?
Thanks, Johannes

Experiment has shown that it is approximate, sometimes lots more
sometimes lots less.
> > I just don't know where to begin to try to debug this.  Is this something 
> > that anyone else has worked through?
> 
> You could try linux/Documentation/nmi_watchdog.txt (don't know it
> it works with Athlons, though).
Unfortunately, that made no difference.

However, adding "noapic" to the lilo command line along with the
watchdog option produced a very slow but completely (over 4 hours of TV
modules installed and running) machine.

I am no running with just the noapic option, and will try to record a
film overnight to see what happens.

Adding the noapic option was just guessing as a result of total
frustration. I have no real idea of what it does, why it might work, or
why I should or should not do it!

Alistair
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Alistair Hamilton <alistair@eurgain.free-online.co.uk>



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