Re: enlightenment locks system
Rob Mahurin wrote:
>
> I had my system choke and die a couple of times for no good reason
> last week (after 51 days of uptime!). The first time was a blown
> fuse. The second, I had both WP and staroffice open (dumb) trying to
> read an excel spreadsheet some cretin sent me. Started hearing a lot
> of disk activity, suddenly the entire system was frozen. No mouse
> action, couldn't toggle the NumLock, nothing. Hard reset, no harm
> done, was fine for a day. I figured I just ran out of memory since I
> had Netscape running in the background also and resolved to pay more
> attention to such things in the future.
When I was just get my X running at early 1997 with 8 megs, I sometimes
suffer similar symptoms. In fact, the program I was using keep running,
but I was unable to do anything else, so I supposed that the windows
manager
was swapped out entirely. Then, no it don't process further messages
from
X server. Sad stuff.
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