Not using xlockmore - in fact I have screensaver disabled. BUT... I didn't turn off the power management feature. What do you think? Could that be the culprit?
On Wed, 2005-08-17 at 11:43 -0700, Sebastian Smith wrote: > Are you using xlockmore or another package to lock your screen, or display > a screensaver. I've had issues with opengl-based screen savers (xlock) > locking my X display when they've run for a long time. How do I check on the a memory problem with firefox? > > I've also had issues with firefox hogging tons of memory (very > memory-leakish). If your using it you should keep an eye on its memory > useage. > > - Sebastian > > > On Wed, 17 Aug 2005, Ben Johnson wrote: > > > On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 10:16:16AM -0700, Dennis Bagley wrote: > >> > >> Ideas? Recommendations? > > > > it may only be X freezing up on you. sometimes ctrl+alt+f1 or > > ctrl+alt+bckspc works to get out of a frozen X session. > > > > maybe some process on the box has found a way to use all userspace > > processing cycles. icmp packets are handled at a very low level in the > > OS... so often when a system isn't responsive and can't even be > > connected to with ssh, it will still respond to pings. that's a good > > test. > > > > keyboard events, I think, are also handled at a very low level but if X > > is frozen then you won't see any echo. need a console for that. > > > > are you getting any messages in the logs that might give a clue? > > sometimes you'll see a kernel oops. when my laptop crashes because of > > my windows nic driver I see in the logs messages about about packets > > that are too large. or disk read errors/timeouts... stuff like that. > > > > I hear compiling a kernel is a good way to test memory. if your > > compiler segfaults (sig11), you probably have a bad stick. I've heard > > this can be more reliable then memtest programs. > > > > - Ben > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > RLUG mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug > > _______________________________________________ RLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug
