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this is with qa0328 I have a dual-processor box that I'm running xmms on to play mp3s that are on an nfs mounted filesystem. Whenever I play mp3s with this setup, the machine locks. It stops repsonding to the mouse/keyboard, pings, console switching, everything.. If I boot the UP kernel, the deadlock doesn't occur. If I copy the files to the hd instead of playing them over nfs, the deadlock doesn't occur. If I switch to using mpg123 instead of xmms, the deadlock doesn't occur. (I know xmms isn't part of kernel, but its the only thing that I've found that will trigger the lock) The deadlock is reporducable, but not always at the same time. It tends to happen between 30 seconds and 5 minutes into the song. I've reproduced it with several mp3s. Even with the same mp3, it doesn't lock at the same time. The nfs server is a RH70 box sitting on the same switch. The sound card is an ESS 1868 PnP AudioDrive, a nsb compatible that uses the sb driver. The ethernet card is a RealTek 8139.
This is interesting. XMMS is one of the few programs that use the realtime capability of the kernel... Could you try turning that option off in xmms and see if that changes the hang?
I checked and the realtime option was already turned off. Also, I was running as a normal user and the realtime option requires you to run xmms as root.
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