On Thu, 2011-02-24 at 15:06 +0000, Mel Gorman wrote: > > Possible. I had some graphics issues with X hanging once a while, but > > with all of those I could still ssh in and reboot the machine. > > It could very well be related with the main difference being that > compaction blew up with interrupts disabled taking down the whole > machine. Have you a reproduction case for the X hangs? No, I don't, it just seems to happen every couple of hours. It just happened again while I wasn't even touching the laptop (was reading something else)... > It might also be worth running memtest on the machine just in case but I > find it doubtful that it's the problem. A buggy graphics driver feels > more likely. Are you running anything like compiz? If yes, are the > hangs still reproducible with it disabled? No, I'm not running compiz or any other composition manager. > Thanks. With luck, it'll show up a driver that is corrupting memory. Well, it hung a minute ago, but I couldn't even ssh in any more... Sometimes I can, sometimes I can't. > Ok, good to know. Right now I am leaning towards a buggy graphics driver > or X server is corrupting memory and compaction suffered particularly > badly from it. Yeah, I'm inclined to agree. Thanks for your help. Can we copy the bug to some DRI folks maybe? johannes -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxx For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>