[Openchrome-users] Fwd: opencrome in Debian 5 on Epia M.

[John Robinson]

On 23/03/2009 18:21, Francesco Bochicchio wrote:
> 2009/3/22 Xavier Bachelot <xavier at bachelot.org <mailto:xavier at bachelot.org>>
[...]
>     I think it was never really fixed and the support is disabled by
>     default. Grep for CONFIG_X86_LONGHAUL in your kernel config.
> 
> I can add that this option is one of the differences between the 
> 'faulty' kernel, which has the option enabled as module, and the 'good' 
> one, which has it disabled.
> However, I'm not sure about this diagnosis: my box is permanently on  
> and running a P2P program  which usually uses  between 15% and 40% of  
> CPU time. When I play a movie, I don't stop that program, so at least 
> 15% of CPU is always used. If the failure was due to an attempt to 
> downclock the CPU, it should occur sometime also without playing a 
> movie, e.g. when the P2P program run out of sources. It never occurred 
> despite an uptime of days with the P2P program always running.

Yes, but almost any time you do anything interactive, like start playing 
a DVD, the CPU speed gets put back up to the maximum, and the crashes 
only seem to occur on speed changes when there's heavy I/O: your P2P 
program's I/O won't be much more than your upstream connection speed x2 
(from disc, to network), while playing video involves much more data 
coming from disc then shuffling a screen's worth of data around 50-60 
times per second.

> Anyway, with the new kernel is now two days without crashes, so I'm 
> happy whatever the reason :-)

I hope it's still up!

Cheers,

John.