<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 1, 2008 8:30 AM, Paul Andreassen <<a href="mailto:paulx@andreassen.com.au">paulx@andreassen.com.au</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi,<br><br>Is it possible to have a PREEMPT kernel while using the closed source nVidia<br>driver?<br><br>I've compiled the stable Debian kernel 2.6.18 and the backported kernel<br>2.6.22, and both kill random programs. Its strange because it some times
<br>kills the game I'm running, sometime faults on boot up and once gcc actually<br>died.<br><br>Thanks,<br>Paul<br>_______________________________________________<br>mythtv-users mailing list<br><a href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org">
mythtv-users@mythtv.org</a><br><a href="http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users" target="_blank">http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users</a><br></blockquote></div><br>What benefit does a preempt kernel have over a regular kernel? I thought it was important on a desktop system but not a server since user responsiveness is not important on a server. So I disabled it on the kernel config. I could be wrong.
<br><br>As far as the kernel killing things. I encountered this with only one program mysqld. I think it was the kernel OOM killer. I notice that mysqld keeps eating memory the longer it runs so now I restart it everyday. Have you checked the available memory with free when it starts killing things?
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