On Thu, 12 Aug 1999, Marc Mutz wrote:
> What kernel? kernels 2.2.{8,9,10} are known to sometimes corrupt the fs,
> and 2.2.11 is too new to tell...
2.2.6 ... :/
> Other option I can think of is running out of mem. How much swap do you
> have? netscape can sometimes grow to much more than you have as physical
> memory available and 2.2 kernels are somewhat slow to recover from
> OOM's, i.e. they seem to sleep for a few minutes (trying to kill the
> offending task), then usually come up with the GUI login promt again.
64 phys, pc 100 (but running @ 66, obviously -- inherited from another
machine)
i was watching ns w/ mem usage... it was expanding to about 50 megs or so
from time to time, but it never went more than a meg or two into swap
i guess i shud have waited a bit longer than i did... but there was no hd
activity, at all... nor was there anything to indicate that anything was
'moving'...
one thing that might be somewhat noteworthy is that it took out the net
daemons... when i restarted, and they couldn't load,.. that's when i
figured it was time to scrap it and start over... (after backing up /home/
and /etc/ that is)
-- moss
