Try using a temporary swapfile to increase swap and see if the problem
goes away - if so your up for a re-partitioning. I regularly run out of
swap with gnumeric (often uses over a gig of it) and a quick swapon
saves the system from coming to an abrupt halt. Windows dynamic swap is
actually a much more system friendly method of handling swap than what
linux uses - yes linux is more efficient, but that goes out the window
when swap hits the wall!
dd if=/dev/zero bs=1024 count=1024000 of=/extraswap #put it in the root
mkswap /extraswap
swapon /extraswap
swapon -s (for swap usage)
swapoff /extraswap #turn off when not needed as it can slow the system
down - will transfer data out of swap on closedown, so make sure there
is room first!
Downside is a noticable slowing of the system over a swap partition, but
at least its still working! I keep a swapfile around for a quick swapon
when needed - but I really must re-partition soon!
BillK
On Sat, 2002-08-03 at 20:55, Randy Kramer wrote:
Just thought I'd provide a little bit of extra information --
* I have 256 MB of RAM, less 2 MB used by my on board SiS 630/730
video card (and Linux knows about the missing 2 MB), I have 500 MB +
of swap.
* I typically run top in a virtual terminal (but don't always pay
close attention to it)
* On the first crash I might have run out of RAM / SWAP, because at
least once the RAM was essentially all used and so was the swap (maybe
10 MB free swap)
* On the recent crash, I think it is less likely that I ran out of
RAM and SWAP as I have been trying to watch it more closely. Last time
I looked I had on the order of 200 MB of SWAP free (and a negligible
amount of RAM) -- after the crash I had 100 MB of RAM and 400 MB of SWAP
free
Randy Kramer
Randy Kramer wrote:
PROBLEM: My problem is, twice I've had one window / instance of Mozilla
crash, and each time it's closed all the open Mozilla windows. So, I
guess I was not really getting separate instances of Mozilla, but they
were all sharing one executable or some portion thereof.
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