Just some info for what it may be worth.
As for the 486 machines being unable to respond to lockups, my lockups
have been on a Pentium Pro.
As for the swap file filling, yes, that does produce very dramatic
consequences. But having experienced that once, I have on my desktop a
little swap monitor, so know that my own occasional lockups are not
due to that.
Other than some initial problem with flakey RAM, all my lockups that
went beyond simply a hung app that had to be killed, was with
Netscape. I believe each time this was associated with pulling down
some Netscape menus and losing all keyboard and mouse input. So, while
someone suggested killing the application, that can't be done (I don't
include here the hangs of Netscape because of it's tendency to gag on
bad JavaScript code). Sice there's little alternative to pulling the
plug, I've had some "exciting" times doing repairs on my HD. Naturally
I await the Linux version of Opera due out later this year, but at
present it is alpha code that is of little use to me.
Haines Brown
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