> Sometimes (too often) I am working on my Mandrake 8.1 machine and suddenly
>everything grinds to a halt making me have to do a cold boot.
> This is quite annoying and has the potential to corrupt data and losing information
>I am working on.
> This happens sometimes when using Mozilla, or anyth
> "Jeff Waugh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Kernel version?
> 2.4.8-26mdk
... and from your other email:
> That would be why, I have 128MB ram and 70 meg swap partition, I might
> have to create a secondary swap file.
There's your problem. The earlier 2.4 kernels were very lazily reclaiming
On Tue, 19 Feb 2002 12:46:22 +1030 (CST)
"Glen Turner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Feb 2002, Christopher Booth wrote:
>
> The machine is probably running out of memory and thrasing the disk
> because it is writing to swap. The I/O queues get very long, and any
> process that needs I
On Tue, 19 Feb 2002 13:09:37 +1100
"Jeff Waugh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> > Sometimes (too often) I am working on my Mandrake 8.1 machine and suddenly
> > everything grinds to a halt making me have to do a cold boot.
>
> Kernel version?
2.4.8-26mdk
>
> > Anything I can do to stop this
> Sometimes (too often) I am working on my Mandrake 8.1 machine and suddenly
> everything grinds to a halt making me have to do a cold boot.
Kernel version?
> Anything I can do to stop this happening, I installed a monitor but it is
> practically useless :p
... and you're sticking your tongue
Sometimes (too often) I am working on my Mandrake 8.1 machine and suddenly everything
grinds to a halt making me have to do a cold boot.
This is quite annoying and has the potential to corrupt data and losing information I
am working on.
This happens sometimes when using Mozilla, or anything tha
