On Tue, 2002-11-05 at 10:45, Constant Brouerius van Nidek wrote:
Well my system freezes with two programs. If I want to find a file on my system I am most often to lazy to remember how to grep and I do a find in my KDE on Suse 8.0. After some files are returned a freeze of my system is a sure thing. Same when I use the file find command in midnight commander. Three finger salute and any other keyboard input has no effect. A reset is the only way out. Cannot remember having such a freezing of the screen with any other program.
Could it be that these find utils are using lots of memory? I have 320 mb memory and have excluded via Lilo the last twenty mb because they are faulty. Could it be that find does not respect this exclusion? Any other reasons?
You should try to do a Ctrl Alt F1 and see if you can get to a shell prompt. Sometimes X locks up due to an error in your desktop manager or program. If you get a shell prompt you can run "ps afx" or top to see which the offending cpu eater is and kill it. -- Steve ___________________________________________________________ HTML in e-mail is not safe. It let's spammers know to spam you more, and sets you up for online attack through IE 4.x and above. Using HTML in e-mail promotes it as safe to the uninitiated.