[MPlayer-users] mencoder often COMPLETLY locks up my machine

[Gábor Lénárt]

On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 10:32:50PM -0400, Rick Warner wrote:
> Hi.  I work for a linux cluster company.  We have to make sure we have VERY 
> stable hardware.  Our tests typically include the following:
> repetitive recompile of kernel (scripted)
> repetitive dd if=/dev/HARDDRIVE of=/dev/null              --repeat for 
> multiple drives- tests io and hard drive at same time
> 1 copy of cpuburn per cpu in system- be sure to use the correct one for your 
> system- burnP6 in your case
> These tests are all run at the same time on separate vt's in plain console 
> mode.  We typically run setterm -blank to prevent the screen from blanking 
> (allows you so see kernel panic if one occurs) and doing a top as well --make 
> sure you turn the monitor off to avoid burn in!
> 
> If your system can handle running that overnight without crashing, you can 
> start blaming mencoder then.

You can't. NO userspace program should lock up your kernel, otherwise that
bug is bug of your kernel. Run mencoder as user (not root) and then it
should not lock up the kernel if it would bug free ...

- Gábor