Re: Applications close by themselves with CPU under load.

2002-05-02 Thread Shawn McMahon
begin Michael D. Crawford quotation: > Get memtest86. I was having some whacky problems on the PC I'm using right > this second, and memtest86 showed that I had some bad memory. I randomly > pulled one of the three memory modules and retested, and it passed the > test. It's been stable as a

RE: Applications close by themselves with CPU under load.

2002-05-02 Thread Michael D. Crawford
Get memtest86. I was having some whacky problems on the PC I'm using right this second, and memtest86 showed that I had some bad memory. I randomly pulled one of the three memory modules and retested, and it passed the test. It's been stable as a rock ever since. http://www.memtest86.com/

Re: Applications close by themselves with CPU under load.

2002-05-01 Thread dman
On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 09:23:28AM +1000, Wienand Ian wrote: | The latest kernels all recommend swap == 2 * RAM, so I'd increase that swap | partition to at least 400mb 400MB of swap is way too much. I have 256MB swap and 256MB RAM. This gives me 512MB total. I run gnome, galeon, zope, apache

Re: Applications close by themselves with CPU under load.

2002-05-01 Thread Fermín García-Herreros Castillero
It sounds logical, and that's why it was the first thing i thought about. I knew i should had more swap space, and so i tried to add a file and do a mkswap on it, but that wasn't helpful. My swap partition is 128 mb because before upgrading the system RAM, it had only 64 mb. But i don't think i

Re: Applications close by themselves with CPU under load.

2002-05-01 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Wienand Ian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >The latest kernels all recommend swap == 2 * RAM, so I'd increase that swap >partition to at least 400mb You mean the latest kernels from a year ago ;). That swap == 2 * RAM restriction was lifted somewhere during 2.4 (and 2.

Re: Applications close by themselves with CPU under load.

2002-05-01 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Fermín García-Herreros Castillero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >When my computer in running under high load, sometimes it's impossible >to me to open certain applications. It appears to occur more often with >galeon, pan and opera (linked). Sounds like memory or CPU

RE: Applications close by themselves with CPU under load.

2002-05-01 Thread Wienand Ian
but when I first see the main window (in Galeon, when i see the utility bar, or in pan, when i see the newsgroup list) the program immediately closes. My system is a K6 (1st version) 233 mhz with 192 Mb of ram, 20 Gb, 128 of swap partition, 3dfx Banshee and two NICs, all of them f

Applications close by themselves with CPU under load.

2002-05-01 Thread Fermín García-Herreros Castillero
Hello. I have a problem with my Gnome-woody that is driving me crazy and i can't find the solution for the problem. When my computer in running under high load, sometimes it's impossible to me to open certain applications. It appears to occur more often with galeon, pan and opera (linked). Th