Re: Killing the whole system

[Jack Coates <jack monkeynoodle org>]

does it still respond to network (ping, ssh) or is it dead there too?
I'm thinking X might be locking up.

-- 
Jack Coates
Monkeynoodle: It's what's for dinner!

On Tue, 20 Mar 2001 julian@catchen.org wrote:

> The interesting thing about this is that when my system crashes, the
> whole system goes down immediatley.  There is no hard drive grinding to a
> halt, nothing.  Balsa starts up, I click on a mailbox (or on the compose
> button) and *bam* the whole thing stops responding.  There isn't enough time
> for the virtual memory and swap to be eaten.
>
> ----julian
>
> >Doesn't it use ee to view images? I've had ee and convert spiral out of
> >control and consume all swap, crashing the machine after about 30
> >seconds. Upgrading imlib fixed it -- don't remember the old version, but
> >I'm currently at imlib-1.9.8.1-6mdk_helix_1
> >
> >--
> >Jack Coates
> >Monkeynoodle: It's what's for dinner!
> >
> >>On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Pawel Salek wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> On 2001-03-20 18:06 julian@catchen.org wrote:
> >> > System specs include:
> >> >
> >> > SuSE 6.3
> >> > XFree 4.0.2
> >> > Gnome 1.2 (mostly the latest Ximian packages)
> >> > Kernel 2.4.1
> >> > I am not sure which version of glibc I am running
> >> > (not at my computer right now)
> >> > Balsa 1.1.1
> >>
> >> Haven't you been running netscape at the same time, or similar memory
> >> consuming program?
> >>
> >> I don't see a way balsa could consume that much memory that system
> >> starts trashing...
> >>
> >> /Pawel
>
>
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