NV44A (PCI) 3D screensaver CACHE_ERROR
Submitted by James Phillips
Assigned to Nouveau Project
Description
Created attachment 91478
dmesg output with bubble3d running ~16 hours (with one interruption)
Computer failed second-stage burn-in testing. Was able to run mprime with blended tests overnight. Running the 3D screensaver (initially pinion) with mprime doing "in place FFTs" (loads CPU, cache, little memory): caused X to crash. Lightdm restarted it automatically, but I had no mouse pointer.
I then upgraded all of the relevant software to newer versions:
Package: xorg Version: 1:7.7+5
Package: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau Version: 1:1.0.10-1
Package: libdrm-nouveau2 Version: 2.4.50-1
Package: libgl1-mesa-dri Version: 9.2.2-1
Package: xscreensaver-gl Version: 5.23-1
uname -a
Linux torchlight 3.11-2-686-pae #1 SMP Debian 3.11.10-1 (2013-12-04) i686 GNU/Linux
Running bubble3d with mprime doing "in place FFTs", I get a soft lock-up within about 30 minutes. I switched to bubble3d because the screen with the mouse pointer was experiencing ~50% slow-downs even if the pointer was not drawn (it gives info about the gear under the pointer). All the GL screen savers also seem to suffer significant slow-downs with the option to display the frame-rate enabled. On the order of 20->5 fps. This slowdown was not as evident prior to the upgrade (so may be a regression).
When running bubble3d for about 16 hours, with the computer otherwise idle, I logged two sets of Cache errors. However, without the soft lock-up. I plan to test with an ATI card to see the problems may be related to power stability rather than software. The motherboard is now about 10 years old, so the capacitors may be drying out.
Attachment 91478, "dmesg output with bubble3d running ~16 hours (with one interruption)":
dmesg.nouveau-bubble3d.log