Re: I am not impressed with Debian so far.
Jim B wrote:
>
> That also happened to me a few weeks ago while I was running Netscape. I
> heard my drive going nuts, and I ran df to check the free space. Well, the
> free space kept getting lower and lower and ... finally my machine stopped
> and I got a Kernel Panic.
>
> After I rebooted however, fsck found bad sectors on the disk.
>
> YMMV.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Patrick Colbeck <pat.colbeck@esc.azlan.co.uk>
> To: Barry Kauler <bkauler@cowan.edu.au>
> Cc: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 1999 6:46 AM
> Subject: RE: I am not impressed with Debian so far.
>
> > Hey, my hard drive did the sudden thrashing thing last night too. Its
> > never done it before (well it has in NT but not in Linux). All I was
> > doing was reading mail remotely over a dialup line using xemacs in a
> > kterm in KDE 1.1.1 (from snowcrash). It stopped after a while (about 4
> > minutes) and has been fine since. This never happened before in RedHat
> > or with Hamm. Is this a KDE thing perhaps ?. I am running on an AST M
> > series Laptop which has 48Mb ram and a 2GB Linux partition with about
> > 1300MB free and a 92MB swap file.
> >
> > Pat
Run a program such as "Top" that monitors your processes. Find the pid
that is sucking the memory and then kill it. Look at "man top"
htht,
kent
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