I run in the Kicker ksysguard and system monitor to see cpu usage, memory usage, and hard disk accesses. This morning I had a crash, and the frozen image on the kicker showed about 25% cpu usage, 50% free RAM, and 60% free swap.
I've also had it crash while using IceWM. Andrew ________________________________________________ Get your own "800" number Voicemail, fax, email, and a lot more http://www.ureach.com/reg/tag ---- On Sun, 2 Jun 2002, Bill Davidson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sun, 2 Jun 2002 16:06:57 -0400 > Andrew Berry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I am running: > > > > Mandrake 8.2, KDE3, IceWM, XFree86 4.2.0. > > > > Hardware: > > P166 MMX > > 64 Mb Ram > > 120 Mb Swap > > S3 Virge 2D card > > Monster3D Voodoo1 3D card > > Dual boot with Windows 98se using graphical LILO. > > > > My computer seems to randomly freeze up. It stops responding to > > everything (mouse, keyboard, CTRL+ALT+BKSPC). This only happens when I > > am running X11. I haven't found a pattern that shows a specific app > > causing the freeze. I have had combinations of IceWM, KDE2.2 and 3, > > running combinations StarOffice5.2, Konquoror, FreeAmp, and Ogg123, > > open when a crash occurs. I don't think that its a hardware issue, as > > this never happens under Win98SE, and HardDrake properly detected all > > my hardware. I have tried looking in some log files in /var/log to > > find a pattern. No luck. > > > > My questions: > > 1. Is there a systematic way to detemine what is causing the crashes? > > 2. What specific log files should I look at? > > 3. Anyone else had this problem? Fixes? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Andrew > > Could it be a memory problem, as in running out. 64MB doesn't seem like > enough to run kde by itself, nevermind run applications on top of it. Of > course that's pure speculation on my part. I have a 300MHz PII with > 160MB of and I find kde painfully slow. That's why I tried xfce. > > Anyway, you prolly wanna look in /var/log/messages. If there are any > clues, they're prolly in there. You might also wanna run free and/or top > periodically to check your memory usage. HTH. > > Bill > > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > > >
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