ACPI (was: Re: system hang while using Gimp aggressively)

2001-12-13 Thread Geoff Beaumont
On Thu, 2001-12-13 at 22:25, Matt wrote: > As for your freezing problem, if you're running ext2 or some other > filesystem that gets damaged (sometimes) when you don't shutdown, try > installing ACPI for your system power button. This way, if X freezes > you can press the power button and your sy

Re: system hang while using Gimp aggressively

2001-12-13 Thread Brian Nelson
Paul Reavis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Eric G. Miller wrote: > > > 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 > > >

Re: system hang while using Gimp aggressively

2001-12-13 Thread Matt
> Ctrl-Alt-Backspace didn't work, neither did cntrl-alt-delete. In > general these both work. I'm using gnome-panel, enlightenment, and a > fair pile of stuff - it's my work/development machine. So narrowing > this down is hard. See my other post - I'm getting crashes besides the > gimp, so now thi

Re: system hang while using Gimp aggressively

2001-12-13 Thread Paul Reavis
Eric G. Miller wrote: > 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 an

Re: system hang while using Gimp aggressively

2001-12-03 Thread Eric G. Miller
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 w

system hang while using Gimp aggressively

2001-12-03 Thread Paul Reavis
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 b