Re: [S.u.S.E. Linux] System Locks up
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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 <pid> 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 <A HREF="mailto:luis@lac.resonet.com">mailto:luis@lac.resonet.com</A> To get Receipt Notification include %rec% anywhere in the Subject field. -- -- To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e
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