On Sun, Dec 03, 2006 at 04:45:27PM +0000, Simon Truss wrote: > Hi, > > I was in vim in insert mode and just pasted a large selection into the > xenconsole - instant busy lockup. Once I figured out what caused it I > was able to repeat this 5 out of 5 times. > > I tried this with small simple lines and was never able to lockup the > console. I have however managed to to cause this lockup by pasting less > than 1KB of data, and then pasting more in small pieces until it exceeds > 1KB. I have no idea why 1KB might be a magic number but perhaps its a hint. > > lastly I also had a similar lockup by just connecting to the console > with 'xm console test1' no copy paste with the mouse at all. > > this is an intel HT core, both Dom0 and DomU running 4.99.4 from Nov28 > daily builds. > > xentools30-3.0.3nb1 > xenkernel30-3.0.3 i have observed this behavior as well, running 4.0_BETA 20061026 with xenkernel30-3.0.2.2 and xentools30-3.0.2.2 on an AMD Athlon 2000+ My testing has not been nearly as rigorous, i simply have noticed 'xen console foo' can cause this behavior if there are a lot of messages on the console, or if i paste in large amounts of text. --david > > Simon
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