Subject: Re: freeze
To: Jaka Jejcic <jj@gnorw.net>
From: Steven M. Bellovin <smb@research.att.com>
List: current-users
Date: 04/02/2004 11:30:49
In message <20040402162133.GA4604@localhost.localdomain>, Jaka Jejcic writes:
>On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 01:41:51PM +0200, Adam Ciarcinski wrote:
>> > I'm using apm (without acpi), compile kernel and userland with -O -pipe
>> > and packages with -pipe -O3 -march=pentium3 -mmmx -msse -msse2 -mfpmath=ss
>e
>> 
>> GENERIC_LAPTOP or your own config?
>> I recommend -Os -pipe -mcpu=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer :)
>> (drop the last option when building mozilla from source)
>
>I'm using my own config. Do you think it is the kernel, userland or mozilla
>problem?

If a non-privileged userland program can freeze the system, by 
definition there's a kernel problem.

		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb