[Plex86-devel] X uses 95-98 cpu after plex86 started ...

[brendan . bradley2]

First off thanks to all who have contributed to this project,
particulary Kevin Lawton for starting it, as one of the Hobbits said :
It's the job that never gets started as takes longest to finish.
I've only just started following this so I don't know all the other names
involved, but thanks to Eric Laberge for fixing one problem I've had so
far.

Unfortunately, everytime I run plex86 my RH system grinds to a halt:
( Kernel 2.2.5-15 ).
Running top gives X at 95-99 % cpu.(!!!)

Before I realised the X problem I used strace and then gdb to see if I could
trace it down, but now it occurs to me I should probably ask if this is
something simple and obvious that I am overlooking.

I noticed that after trying to run plex nothing else would run, xterm, ,
ddd, anything.

I straced ddd and plex and I noticed a common error 'resource temporarily
unavailable'.
This was always after a read (0x.......).
I can't give you the exact text because running plex now will kill my X
session.

I mention this in the hope it will ring a bell with someone, but if not
I will gather as much info as I can and forward it on.

It would be nice to fix this myself, but I'm new to this game, and would
appreciate any help,

Thanks,

Brendan Bradley.

My config :
####################################################################
# This is an example plex86 configuration file
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#st
###################################################################
# Memory settings
####################################################################

# number of megabytes for vm
memory = 4


####################################################################
# Plugins
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plugin = ./plugins/bochs/plugin-bochs.so
bochs-opt boot: a
#bochs-opt diskc: file="../../10M.vga", cyl=306, heads=4, spt=17
bochs-opt floppya: 1_44=../../1.44_dos622, status=inserted
bochs-opt keyboard_serial_delay: 200
bochs-opt floppy_command_delay: 500bochs-opt vga_update_interval: 200000
bochs-opt mouse: enabled=0
bochs-opt private_colormap: enabled=0
bochs-opt i440fxsupport: enabled=0
bochs-opt newharddrivesupport: enabled=1
bochs-opt ips: 1000000
#bochs-opt time0: 938581955
#bochs-init


# The system BIOS
load-rom: file=../bios/BIOS-plex86-current, address=0xf0000

# The VGA BIOS
load-rom: file=../bios/VGABIOS-elpin-2.40, address=0xc0000

plugin = ./plugins/bochs/iodev/cmos.so
plugin = ./plugins/bochs/iodev/dma.so
plugin = ./plugins/bochs/iodev/system.so
plugin = ./plugins/bochs/iodev/vga.so
plugin = ./plugins/bochs/iodev/serial.so
plugin = ./plugins/bochs/iodev/parallel.so
plugin = ./plugins/bochs/iodev/keyboard.so
plugin = ./plugins/bochs/iodev/floppy.soplugin = 
./plugins/bochs/iodev/harddrv.so

####################################################################
# Debugging settings
####################################################################

# syntax for disassembly
db_syntax = at&t


####################################################################
# VM tweaks
####################################################################

# Maximum depth that the scan-before-execute code will try
# to recursively prescan code in the current code page, by
# following intra-page branches.
prescan: depth = 3, ring3 = on



####################################################################
# end of config file
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