hi ya sometime netscape runs amock....and need to be killed... ( what does "ps auxw" show ? ) - same for kde or gnome...
when the system ran out of space... what were you doing??? - compiling stuff ??? - just in screen saver mode ?? get into a habit of running top and/or ps regularly to see what should be running... - maybe a hacker is running a chat session ??? - or sending out gazillion emails... have fun alvin On Wed, 18 Apr 2001, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 05:13:07PM -0700, Jeff Davis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > I am running unstable (also kernel 2.4.3). I was exporting a > > display and runnning a second instance of kde on a remote machine > > (seperate user). When I came back, my computer was very slow (almost > > all my 256MB RAM used, way more than normal). > > Out-of-memory conditions can lead to a sluggish, and sometimes > terminally swapped, system. Best thing to do is find and isolate the > memory-hogging application and shut it down. > > > I closed everything and tried to get out of kde/X (at this time the > > remote computer had already logged off, etc). > > Suggestions: > > - Switch to a virtual console window (<ctl><alt><F[1-6]>) rather than > killing X. You're going to need a console anyway, and you can kill > X from it. You might want to run 'screen' and get both a 'top' > session and a shell prompt going. > > - Leave the remote connection open. It uses minimal overhead and is > quite useful if you wedge the system. > > - Using top or other monitoring tools, start shutting down large > processes. > > > I eventually got to a black screen with an immobile mouse and an > > unresponsive keyboard. I had to reboot. > > Sometimes necessary, but often not. You'll also want to read up on the > "magic sysrq" key combinations. I've got these taped up in strategic > locations. > > > I am not sure that the display export had anything to do with the > > "crash". Did I do something wrong? My computer hasn't had any > > problems like this for a long time (and I have had 2.4.2/3 & debian > > unstable for at least a month). > > Check your system logs for error messages, may be something there. > Could just be userspace apps. > > You can set user limits (ulimit) to prevent runaway memory utilization. > There's also low-memory cleanup support being added to the Linux kernel > itself, though I believe this is still experimental and doesn't quite > perform as expected or desired. > > -- > Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ > What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal > http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org >