I was working on some large (600dpi) images with lots of layers in the Gimp, and had bumped up its image cache to 256MB to reduce swapping. In the middle of a large copy, it froze x and, as far as I could tell, the whole machine - it responded to pings but not telnet. I left it overnight and came back the next day; it was still hung. So I had to hard reset the machine, yuck.
What can cause this? It seems like simple out-of-memory etc. ought to be caught by the system, and wabbits in my experience usually get killed or die by themselves after awhile. I have a 1.4GHz athlon with 512MB of ram and 1GB of swap, running sid on 2.4.10 with JFS patch. Here are some other pertinent facts: slackguy$ cat /proc/sys/kernel/osrelease 2.4.10 slackguy$ cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu family : 6 model : 4 model name : AMD Athlon(tm) processor stepping : 4 cpu MHz : 1396.038 cache size : 256 KB fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug : no coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 1 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr syscall mmxext 3dnowext 3dnow bogomips : 2785.28 slackguy$ cat /proc/meminfo total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached: Mem: 526598144 304390144 222208000 0 4030464 143753216 Swap: 1077469184 70197248 1007271936 MemTotal: 514256 kB MemFree: 217000 kB MemShared: 0 kB Buffers: 3936 kB Cached: 130828 kB SwapCached: 9556 kB Active: 69936 kB Inactive: 74384 kB HighTotal: 0 kB HighFree: 0 kB LowTotal: 514256 kB LowFree: 217000 kB SwapTotal: 1052216 kB SwapFree: 983664 kB slackguy$ free total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 514256 297472 216784 0 3936 130836 -/+ buffers/cache: 162700 351556 Swap: 1052216 68552 983664 Thanks. -- Paul Reavis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Design Lead Partner Software, Inc. http://www.partnersoft.com