> My computer ( this one is brand new even! ) started running away again. > Its happened twice now, on two diff computers. This can't be a hardware > problem.
I had this happen three or four times on my system - 0.93, and maybe 1.1, its been long enough my memory fails me. > > This time, I wasn't logged out and not allowed back in. I was able to > run ps -ax and found no programs running that shouldn't have been. > I did type free and noticed that my swap space was filling up fast. > I kill everything on my other vts and logged out of all except one. > Then the runaway stopped. I was once again connected to my ISP at the > time. I was running lynx and irc. The last time this happened i > was running slrn and irc. So, its either got to be a system problem > or someone on irc found a nice exploit to play with or the irc program > itself has problems. Every time It happened, I was in X, and was running netscape, or had been running netscape. Normally, I do not run X unless. Once, I was able to log on a root and shut it down, but the login process took about 10 minutes. On another occasion the after about 4 hours of grinding away on the hard drive, I regained control, and I could not find anything that looked out of the ordinary in any logs, or files, or etc. The other couple of times, it was so bad that I tried the c-a-d, and it didn't work. On the bright side, it hasn't happened since April. (was 1.1 out in April?) Mark W. Blunier -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]