on Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 03:39:42PM -0500, Harry Henry Gebel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 12:03:12PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > on Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 07:20:53AM -0800, Greg Strockbine ([EMAIL > > PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > My system totally froze up, apparently to memory exhaustion? Can this > > > be? > > > > Similarly, 256 MB, recently upgraded from 96 MB. First thing I did was > > open a bunch of monsters and, sure enough, killed the box. Rebooted > > with magic sys rq. > > > > Won't ALT-SysRq-K kill all of the programs on the X terminal, thereby > probably killing the process using the most memory and keeping you from > having to reboot)? The Sysrq docs imply that it will, but I never found out > about Magic SysRq until after the Mach64 xserver advanced past the stage > where it locks up all of the time, so I haven't been able to test it.
In theory, yes. In this particular practice, no, it did not. I think I may also have triggered a kernel bug -- I was getting those "VM freeing memory" messages to console. I synched and mounted RO drives, killed processes, and booted. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://www.netcom.com/~kmself Evangelist, Zelerate, Inc. http://www.zelerate.org What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org
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