> > I'm told that this is a bug in the 2.4 series- does anyone know if upgrading > > to 2.4.6 will help this problem at all? If not, are there any other > > workarounds? > > > > > One work around is to make sure that you have a swap partition at least > twice as big as physical memory. This has been just a rule of thumb prior > to 2.4, but seems to be pretty important now.
No- the other way around, in fact. I have 256 meg RAM and 127 meg swap. Is there still a rule that swap partitions can be no larger than 127 meg? If not, I shall have to look into repartitioning... -- Geoffrey M. Romer [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- "Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right" -Salvor Hardin "I can't leave you alone with this man! He might be a tenor!" -Fred Astaire