[SLE] Fwd: Re: [SLE] Complete system lock up

It seems that the kerneld loads in the modules when being used, "free" will report the total memory as that available after the kernel has been taken away - or at least thats what I have been told ! Pete ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: Re: [SLE] Complete system lock up Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2000 20:44:56 +0000 From: Pete Atkinson Its getting stranger ..... if I don't have kwintv running, I have 62880 ram, if I start Kwintv it drops to 59680, I thought 'free' would have reported ram regardless of what is running - anybody else like to try with this ? I suppose at the end of the day, I should get into the habit of killing seti before I try and run anything - not exactly ideal though..... Pete...... aying that, i have now got kmail, kwintv, seti and a kvt window open and it still shows 59680 with 1780 free - no sign of anything freezing ;-)

Two thoughts: 1) I have 64MB of RAM and my free shows: total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 62640 61068 1572 59580 924 24052 -/+ buffers/cache: 36092 26548 Swap: 82652 528 82124

yours shows only 59690. Where is the rest?

2) If you are able to do free and top, why don't you 'kill -9 2162' to stop seti?

JLK

On Sat, 04 Mar 2000, Jerry L Kreps wrote:

Pete Atkinson wrote:

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Thanks to all that have replied..

I have tried to telnet in, but unfortunately even though seti etc is still running, the "system" is dead - I can't even ping my machine..

I have also offloaded squid and wwwrun which seemed to be hogging a fair amount of ram - I have "niced" seti as this was quite intensive but it still does it (occassionally)

So..

from a ram point of view, this is free

total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 59690 56512 3168 33540 1980 19112 -/+ buffers/cache 35420 24260 Swap: 128516 3028 125488

Considering that Seti and the Tv are currently running, the swap use seems low ?

This is extracts from top

PID PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT LIB %CPU %MEM COMMAND 2162 16 11 13628 13M 600 R N 0 98.6 21.9 seti 2043 0 0 12112 11M 1224 S 0 0.3 20.2 X 2156 0 0 8252 8252 3412 S 0 0 13.8 kwintv

finally, my fstab

/dev/hdb4 swap swap defaults 0 0 (128M) /dev/hdb3 / ext2 defaults 1 1 (6GB) 66%cap /dev/hdb2 /boot ext2 defaults 1 2 (8MB) 26% /dev/hda1 /dos1 vfat defaults 0 0 (850M) 79% /dev/hdb1 /dos1 vfat defaults 0 0 (1.6GB) 38%

I sippose with the benefit of hindsight that my disk set up is all wrong - especially now that windross is effectively redundant - it seemed to evolve that way I am using a 400Mhz Celeron - 64M Ram on a 66Mhz LX board

any ideas -

Pete

On Wed, 01 Mar 2000, Iwan Mouwen wrote: > Ryan Yagatich wrote:

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I've had somewhat of the same problem before. But mine was because I ran killall5

it sounds like your ram is being over-used. Try killing some processes and see if that helps at all

ryan

Or, if you're on a network, try to telnet (rlogin, ssh, ...) into your machine, and see what's going on.

Iwan.

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