display watermark is too large(92/63), disabling

Colin Law clanlaw at gmail.com
Sat Feb 21 16:46:26 UTC 2015


On 21 February 2015 at 15:51, Chris <cpollock at embarqmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 2015-02-21 at 14:54 +0000, Colin Law wrote:
>> On 21 February 2015 at 14:27, Chris <cpollock at embarqmail.com> wrote:
>> > Now I'm more confused than ever about these 'lockups' I've been
>> > experiencing. The system has 'hung' twice in two days almost exactly
>> > 36hrs apart. The first was at 07:18:55 on 19 Feb, the next was last
>> > night at 19:16:40 on the 20th. I'm going by the times shown on the clock
>> > which I have set to show seconds. I'd installed kernel
>> > 3.19.0-031900-generic #201502091451 SMP Mon Feb 9 14:52:52 UTC 2015
>> > x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux on the 18th at 5:34pm. What I'm seeing
>> > now instead of the 'Hangcheck' error is noted here at pastebin:
>> >
>> > http://pastebin.com/FEff5yy2
>> >
>> > I know I've asked this question before and one response is that it was
>> > informational messages from the video driver. I don't remember seeing
>> > these when I'm running the 3.13.0-45 kernel is this just particular to
>> > the 3.19 kernel? Is there possibly something with the video driver
>> > causing the 'lockups'?
>> >
>> > The output of dpkg -l | grep xorg | intel:
>> >
>> > dpkg -l | grep xorg | grep intel
>> > ii  xserver-xorg-video-intel
>> > 2:2.99.910-0ubuntu1.4 amd64
>> > X.Org X server -- Intel i8xx, i9xx display driver
>>
>> I don't know what those messages mean but they don't look like the
>> sort of thing that would cause a lockup.
>>
>> Can you confirm that you have run the ramcheck (from boot options)
>> overnight for several nights (or/and days) so you can be absolutely
>> certain you do not get lockup whilst running that?
>>
>> Colin
>>
>
> I haven't run it lately Colin however I did run it several nights when
> the 'hangcheck' problem first started. I'll go back and run it today for
> awhile since I have other projects going on and see what happens.

If you ran it for long enough then to confirm that it does not hang
then probably don't need to do it again.
No harm repeating that though, the trickiest problems to fix can be
those with multiple causes, so fixing one does not completely fix it
and you think it has not helped.

Colin




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