"Alvaro A. Novo" wrote:
On Fri, 31 Dec 1999, S.Toms writes:> On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, Jerry L Kreps wrote:
Try this, set the CD for autoplay on insert, insert a yast cd then launch yast and select 'Choose/Install Packages' your system will quickly eat up memory, skyrocket the cpu usage and inevtiably crash X forcing a reset on the box.
Here's another one that happened to me in 6.1 -- kbiff. If it is NOT able to check for new mail at the SMTP server, it will eat up all memory and then... it's "press reset key time".
Two additional recommendations that might avoid further problems:
-- hit ctrl + alt + F1 to KILL the X server (this is different from alt+ctrl+backspace);
In this case, you switch to console 1, *with* the bad process still running. You have to log in and wait, loose time...
-- run xosview (and top) to watch for sudden increases in memory and try to kill the culprit asap... I was able to avoid a couple of crashes this way
My favourite is ctrl + Alt + Backspace. One time when I tried clay pigeon shooting (kill -9 id_of_culprit / killall -9 culprit) it took to much time and I lost. ;-( I' ll look into these "magic_keys" sometime... Juergen
Alvaro
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