Re: lock-ups

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Cory Watson <gphat@cafes.net> writes:
> 
> I have had Helix locking up my computer alot recently as well, most of my
> problems were related to the Updater (which a new version has been released
> I believe, and I haven't used it yet), although a considerable number of
> long hangs and intermittent capplet crashes have sprung up as well.  The
> updater would literally bring the whole box to a halt, not even allowing me
> to telnet in and kill processes.
> 
> The updater literally ate all my memory, as I would watch in the System
> Monitor as it consumed over 100Mb of RAM...
> 

Ah, that would explain it. Linux 2.2.x isn't all that graceful about
running out of memory. XFree isn't really either.

Havoc