On Mon, 3 Dec 2001 08:44:54 -0500, Paul Reavis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I was working on some large (600dpi) images with lots of layers in the > Gimp, and had bumped up its image cache to 256MB to reduce > swapping. In the middle of a large copy, it froze x and, as far as I > could tell, the whole machine - it responded to pings but not > telnet. I left it overnight and came back the next day; it was still > hung. So I had to hard reset the machine, yuck. Ctrl-Alt-Backspace didn't work? (or do you have that turned off?). I found that the OOM killer in 2.4.14 works... Was running a process that sucked up huge amounts of memory, and boom "Killed" was printed in the terminal. Subsequent attempts to run the program returned immediately with "out of memory errors", even though the system had reclaimed the memory (guess the kernel tracks these errant programs for a little while...). -- Eric G. Miller <egm2@jps.net>
