Re: system lock up issue

Playing some more I've found that by disabling SMP in the kernel (2.6.6)
I no longer get the system lockup problem.

However, trying to interrupt dvgrab taking single frames still caused a
lockup.

Is 1394 known to be SMP unfriendly?

On Mon, 2004-04-26 at 22:58, Dan Dennedy wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-04-26 at 13:05, Tony A. Lambley wrote:
> > Replying to self, I've done some more testing and can now lock the
> > system with a trivial example:
> >
> > while [ 1 ]; do dvgrab --format jpeg cam --duration 0.01
> > --jpeg-overwrite; done
> >
> > I see it capture around 7 images and then the machine freezes up.
>
> I am satisfied with your versions and steps to reproduce. I have an idea
> what might be triggering it that I will explore.
>

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