On Sunday 30 September 2001 22:34 pm, Net Llama wrote: > Eeek, only 64MB of RAM? That can't be helping performance any. But > even so, the system shouldn't lock up. Perhaps its overheating, or has > a few too many dust bunnies? Also, how long did you run memtest86? > > --- Collins Richey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've been experiencing weird hangs from time to time. This usually > > occurs when the cpu (K6/II 300 with 64M) is running flat out and > > swaping is active, like when I run a set of kde compiles (many hours) > > and continue to use the box for email and browsing. At first I > > thought Opera might be the culprit, but I've seen the problem occur > > without opera. > >
Is swap space large enough?? It's easy these days when adding memory to forget to add swap space. I noticed today that my 768M RAM system only had 313M of swap space (oh dear) but yet it was running >ok< but seemed to be using almost all of that space. Of that 313M swap space, about 286M were being used all the time and mem was also almost full. (as you would expect) I just finished increasing swap to 800M (which is still possibly shy) and now *NO* swap space usage. Can't explain why that is but a word to the wise..... > > My environment 2.4.4.9+ kernel, X 4.1.0, Savage video card, XFCE, > > sylpheed, nothing bleeding edge with compiler or glibc. Swap file is > > active, and I have more than 2X physical memory. > > > > The symptoms are: When browsing at high system loads, the mouse and > > keyboard stop responding. Reboot required. Thanks goodness I use > > resierfs. > > > > FYI, I have run the memtest86 tests, and my memory (well my PC's > > memory, my own is another story) appears to be ok. > > ===== > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Lonni J. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Linux FAQ & Step-by-step help: http://netllama.ipfox.com > > . > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Listen to your Yahoo! Mail messages from any phone. > http://phone.yahoo.com > _______________________________________________ > http://linux.nf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Archives, Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, Etc > ->http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ + Bruce S. Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bellaire, MI 09/30/01 23:07 + +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ "In most advertisements, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10." _______________________________________________ http://linux.nf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives, Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, Etc ->http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
