From luis@lac.resonet.com Wed Mar 25 22:09:43 1998 From: luis@lac.resonet.com To: users@lists.opensuse.org Subject: Re: [S.u.S.E. Linux] System Locks up Date: Wed, 25 Mar 1998 23:09:43 +0100 Message-ID: <6fbvb7$mvc$1@Galois.suse.de> In-Reply-To: <[S.u.S.E. Linux] System Locks up> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============6418658347276557998==" --===============6418658347276557998== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Here I go replying to my own posts again, nice thing about that is if I flame myself, I have no one else to blame :) On Tue, 24 Mar 1998, Luis A. Costabile wrote: > > On Tue, 24 Mar 1998, Luis A. Costabile wrote: > > > > On Sun, 22 Mar 1998, Steven T. Hatton wrote: > > > > > last time this happened I was scrolling down through a man page in > > > xemacs. I had gotten a head to the system. i.e., clicked faster than > > > it scrolled. > > > > Steve, I posted a question about something like this a little while ago, > > actually about a week ago. It happened again this morning and as soon as > > I heard my hard drive going crazy I started up top and noticed "man" was > > at the top of the list , but I couldn't get enough cycles to kill the > > process, so I had to reset the machine. Very coincidental you were > > running "man" and I had "man" pinned up there. > Ok, now I'm convinced there my problems at least have something to do with 'man' . On one of my systems I did a man sendmail, about 15 minutes later the system got sluggish, I had top running already and at the top of the list was 'man sendmail' and my free space (swap) was gradually being eaten up. I did a kill -9 and the problem went away. How the heck do I prevent this? If I don't catch the problem I end up having to reboot. This is not microsoft!. btw, i'm the only user on this box. -- Lou A. Costabile Voice and Fax: [613] 781-7061 mailto:luis(a)lac.resonet.com To get Receipt Notification include %rec% anywhere in the Subject field. -- -- To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo(a)suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e --===============6418658347276557998==--