On Thursday 20 September 2007 16:56, Dag Nygren wrote: > Hi, > > I have the kview zoom function mapped to the scrollwheel > with ctrl. > Now my wife found out and watching our photos wanted > to zoom out a bit. Then she just rotated the scrollwheel a lot > and expected the zoom to happen. What did happen was that > as the there was no apparent response she tried again, and again. > > Finally the box probably was out of swap space (2GB RAM) and crashed > miserably. > > This is not the expected behavior from a Linux box using a graphics > viewer and I now wonder if there is something I can do about it? > Kernel parameters? > Kview patch? > New wife ;-) > > Best > Dag
If the app has used up all memory, then there is not a great deal that the kernel can do about it. The oom-killer ideally I suppose should terminate your kview process and the machine should continue normally after a fashion. How did it actually die? Any kernel messages? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
