> Now I know: I must wait at least one minute before using the "reset" button > :-) Yes - the box may not be hung, it may just be very busy trying to find memory. I recall an interesting 'horror' story several years ago that a friend and fellow Linux user related to me. He (at the time) was running an older (version of Linux) on a 386 machine with only 4 megs of memory and had not set up any swap space. Well, obviously, that's not a good thing to do. But anyway, he fired up Emacs one time, did some stuff with it, and then did a ctrl-x ctrl-c to exit. Once he did that, the system began to act as if it were completely locked up. But he was patient, and waited, and even timed it. 46 *minutes* later, he got his shell prompt back. And this (since he was without swap space) was not a disk intensive thing at all - just the kernel memory management routines trying to juggle stuff really (relatively) fast for a long time. > óscar. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED] change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. -----------------------------------------------------------------------
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