At 10:45 PM 6/11/00 +0800, s9813008 wrote:
...
>The computer is setup to serve stuff (webpages, samba shares etc) and thus
>is usually left at console with no active applications running. And it still
>hangs.
OF course there are "active applications" running ... how do you think the
system "serve[s] stuff (webpages, samba shares etc)" without running apache,
the SMB stuff, etc.? These are "active applications". And over time, they
will gradually fill up more and more of memory as they cache and buffer
stuff that has been requested.
This description makes it very likely that you have a RAM problem. To
explore this, boot up the machine, and do a VERY large (say 200 meg) ftp
download to it. If the problem is a bad spot in high memory, this will
(usually) cause the failure. You can also run memtest to track this down.
I believe NT doesn't cache/buffer as aggressively as does Linux, so on a
machine with a lot of memoey, NT can run for a very long time without
encountering a bad spot high in memory.
As Richard noted, your problem may also be with swap, if you are using a
swap partition. Next time (if there is a next time), tell us the output of
"free".
>On a side note, why does Netscape hang the entire system? Shouldnt the
>kernel avoid it? Just wondering :)
Ideally yes. But the kernel has trouble recovering from hardware failures,
lie bad RAM. Netscape leaks memory, so a system just running it will, sooner
or later, fill all RAM and start swapping.
------------------------------------"Never tell me the odds!"---
Ray Olszewski -- Han Solo
Palo Alto, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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