[linux-dvb] Re: Total freezes

[Johannes Stezenbach <js@convergence.de>]

Alistair Hamilton wrote:
> 
> HOWEVER, this lasts for about an hour, and the whole computer freezes. 
> Nothing responds, not keyboard, mouse, network, not even CTRL-ALT-SysRq. 
> The only thing to do is press the reset button. The display remains 
> unmoving on the screen.
> 
> There is no gradual deterioration. One instant is is working well, the next 
> it is dead.
> 
> 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?

> 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).


Johannes


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