Re: Problem with swapping - computer crash.

2000-08-14 Thread Gary Hennigan
Marko Cehaja <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have serious problem with swap file, since I changed from potato > to slink. [snip] In the future please refrain from starting a new thread by replying to an old one and just changing the "Subject:". In this case you replied to a "Mr. Smith's" post abou

Re: Problem with swapping - computer crash.

2000-08-14 Thread Gary Hennigan
Marko Cehaja <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have serious problem with swap file, since I changed from potato > to slink. [snip] In the future please refrain from starting a new thread by replying to an old one. In this case you replied to a "Mr. Smith's" post about how Corel wasn't conforming to

Re: Problem with swapping - computer crash.

2000-08-12 Thread Marko Cehaja
Dear > > I would like to know that. Must it be that system crashes or that > > it denies every use of my computer? > > At first, nothing. But when a daemon or other running program tries to malloc > some memory, will die horribly because 'memory exhausted' errors are fatal > ones, > and the prog

Re: Problem with swapping - computer crash.

2000-08-12 Thread Lehel Bernadt
On 12-Aug-2000 Marko Cehaja wrote: (...) > What happens by default when all memory and swap file is exhausted? > I would like to know that. Must it be that system crashes or that > it denies every use of my computer? At first, nothing. But when a daemon or other running program tries to malloc so

Re: Problem with swapping - computer crash.

2000-08-12 Thread Marko Cehaja
Dear On Sat, Aug 12, 2000 at 02:46:03AM -0400, Thomas J. Hamman wrote: > > There were just 4-5 programs in memory, taking about 80-100 MB, which > > are Netscape, Gimp, rxvt+mc, mutt. > > What you describe has happened to me once or twice in Linux, and I've > observed the exact same

Re: Problem with swapping - computer crash.

2000-08-12 Thread Marko Cehaja
Dear On Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 11:43:37PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I can't speak for the others, but its good to restart netscape at least 2 > or 3 times a day if you only have 128MB. Yes. I noticed that. But I cannot control easy *when* to restart the netscape without being full aware of

Re: Problem with swapping - computer crash.

2000-08-12 Thread Thomas J. Hamman
On Sat, Aug 12, 2000 at 08:19:32AM +0200, Marko Cehaja wrote: > > I have serious problem with swap file, since I changed from potato > to slink. > > I have 128 MB memory and have about 75 MB swap file. > > There were just 4-5 programs in memory, taking about 80-100 MB, which > are Netscape, Gim

Re: Problem with swapping - computer crash.

2000-08-12 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, 12 Aug 2000, Marko Cehaja wrote: marko >There were just 4-5 programs in memory, taking about 80-100 MB, which marko >are Netscape, Gimp, rxvt+mc, mutt. I can't speak for the others, but its good to restart netscape at least 2 or 3 times a day if you only have 128MB. marko >Usually there

Problem with swapping - computer crash.

2000-08-12 Thread Marko Cehaja
I have serious problem with swap file, since I changed from potato to slink. I have 128 MB memory and have about 75 MB swap file. There were just 4-5 programs in memory, taking about 80-100 MB, which are Netscape, Gimp, rxvt+mc, mutt. Usually there is no problem, but then about 5 o'clock when