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