Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (949 mails)

[mantel@xxxxxxx (Hubert Mantel)]

Hi,

On Wed, 18 Mar 1998, Pascal Bleser wrote:

> I don't think it is PPP-related, because I had it 4 ou 5 times when I left
> Enlightenment: after a CTRL+ALT+BKSPC to quit X (but it only occured with
> "E"), the disks began to run and run... for no apparent reason, and so hard
> that I couldn't log on on another tty...

Sounds like the kernel runs completely out of memory. I think the disk
noise comes from pages being swapped in and out. What does "free" say
bevor trouble starts? You might want to type "ps -aux" to examine if there
is any program leaking memory. But even if so the kernel may not crash, of
course... 

> Pascal

    Hubert


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