On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 09:55:11AM +0200, Knut Petersen wrote: > Am 02.04.2012 10:44, schrieb Chris Wilson: > >On Mon, 02 Apr 2012 10:36:44 +0200, Knut Petersen<Knut_Petersen at t-online.de> wrote: > >>After a few unattended hours Xorg was still running, > >>but only a terminal window had survived the night :-( > >> > >>Xorg: git, a few days old, kernel: 3.3. > >> > >>Xorg.0.log: Nothing unusual > >> > >>dmesg: > >> > >>[156859.078080] [drm:drm_gem_create_mmap_offset] *ERROR* failed to allocate offset for bo 0 > >>[179417.374016] VFS: file-max limit 204863 reached > >> > >>I built a new X server and tried kernel 3.2.12 - that does not seem to help as > >>both the number of open files and the number of gem objects still grow without > >>obvious reasons. > >It's the EFILE that is truly worrying. We have a patch in the queue to > >help ease the ENOSPC issue, but the EFILE implies a bo reference leak. > >And that I have not found yet. > > > >Happy hunting, > >-Chris > > > > Well, it takes more than two days to trigger the EFILE limit here, but yesterday > the ENOSPC bo problem appeared 6.5 hours after booting the system with current > Xorg git and kernel 3.3.1. I wonder if this is one problem or if we face two independent bugs. Can you try the drm-intel-next-queued branch from my git repo at http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~danvet/drm-intel/ That contains a patch from Chris Wilson to mitigate mmio offset exhaustion, one possible reason for a -ENOSPC failure. -Daniel -- Daniel Vetter Mail: daniel at ffwll.ch Mobile: +41 (0)79 365 57 48