Hi; My computer didn't crash last night. I thought is might be the power saving features, so I turned them off in the bios and in linux. SuSE technical support seamed to agree with me, and after looking at logs at times of the past crashes this seamed to suggest the same. Ben, I also tried you suggestion below, but KDE seems fine. I was worried for a short time, as the used memory was slowly increasing, even when the system was idle, but a short investigation revealed that this was due to cache increases. (overnight it levelled off with about 89MB free out of 769MB and no swap used). Thanks for your help. On Wednesday 24 April 2002 18:28, Ben Rosenberg wrote:
Please give this a shot. Change your run level to 3 so that when it boots it doesn't start KDM. When you logout of KDE you should be back at a prompt. I would like to see if KDM is going crazy..you do know it's a KDE process. It maybe a run away kdeinit process that is munching your memory until you get a lock up or it could be pegging your cpu to 100% until you get a lock up.
After you logout use top to make sure no KDEish procs are running and then see if it locks up as before. I think this might be a KDE 3.0 issue as well.
* Darren Harmon (darrenharmon1@uklinux.net) [020424 01:43]: ::Hi; ::I'm running SuSE 8 on an A7V motherboard, Athlon 1GHz, nVIDIA Geforce 2 :: GTX (with their own drivers, with 3D enabled). ::Most things seem to work great, but three times now, the system has :: locked up after long periods of inactivity. ::I use the "lock desktop" icon to blank the screen when I'm not using the ::computer (SuSE 7.2 worked with no problems), but after more than a few :: hours later, when I move the mouse to get the password box on, the :: system freezes solid (number lock stays on, therefore it could be an :: Xfree problem). The only way is to press the reset button. ::At first I thought it was the power management, but after I turned it off :: the system still locks up. :: ::Please help, I would hate to have to turn my system off every time I :: don't use it (like the old days using Windows:-) thanks.
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