Re: Froze Up: Lack of Memory

2000-11-28 Thread Nate Amsden
kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > I've been kicking this issue around for a while and would be interested > in ideas for a low-memory monitor or something similar which would > identify high-utilization processes and kill them rather than bringing > the entire system to a crashing halt. > > Then ther

Re: Froze Up: Lack of Memory

2000-11-28 Thread kmself
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

Re: Froze Up: Lack of Memory

2000-11-28 Thread Harry Henry Gebel
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. F

Re: Froze Up: Lack of Memory

2000-11-28 Thread kmself
on Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 07:20:53AM -0800, Greg Strockbine ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > boy I can't believe this. > My system totally froze up, apparently to memory exhaustion? Can this > be? Yes. > Debian potato, gnome desktop, 256 Mbytes of memory. Similarly, 256 MB, recently upgraded from 96

RE: Froze Up: Lack of Memory

2000-11-28 Thread Anderson, Tim TL33E
Can't actually answer your question :) but with reference to the last bit, >why does Mozilla have such a huge foot print? >It takes up around 100 Mbytes while Netscape is >down around 15 Mbytes. It doesn't actually. That's the same smaller chunk of memory

Froze Up: Lack of Memory

2000-11-28 Thread Greg Strockbine
boy I can't believe this. My system totally froze up, apparently to memory exhaustion? Can this be? Debian potato, gnome desktop, 256 Mbytes of memory. gkrellm, the system monitor, was froze too, but the display showed the swap file was down to 0 bytes free. There was about 23 Mbytes of main me