Re: Fedora 7 screen freeze

[Derek Atkins <warlord MIT EDU>]

Quoting Karl Larsen <k5di zianet com>:

> Derek Atkins wrote:
> > You have no swap space.  You used all your memory.  You sent your
> > computer into "swap hell".   Add some swap space and it shouldn't
> > happen as often.
> >
> > -derek
> >
> > Quoting Karl Larsen <k5di zianet com>:
> >
> > >     Here is top from my old computer:
> > > top - 08:51:03 up  3:04,  1 user,  load average: 0.06, 0.08, 0.17
> > > Tasks: 127 total,   1 running, 124 sleeping,   0 stopped,   2 zombie
> > > Cpu(s):  7.5%us,  3.8%sy,  0.0%ni, 88.6%id,  0.0%wa,  0.1%hi,  0.0%si,
> > > 0.0%st
> > > Mem:    482776k total,   475472k used,     7304k free,    29076k buffers
> > > Swap:        0k total,        0k used,        0k free,   163588k cached
[snip]
> 	Derek, you missed the  163588k cached swap memory. And it is odd 
> that NM started looking for WiFi Internet after turning off the 
> working ehternet on eth0 that was working for 12 hours.

No, I saw that..  But that's not "swap".  That's the buffer cache.
notice that swap says "0k total, 0k used, 0k free".  You have no swap.
You filled your memory.  Your system went into swap hell.  It froze.

This isn't a network manager issue.

-derek

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