Re: I am not impressed with Debian so far.
I ran top while all this was happening. No process appeared to be using any
more than its usual allotment of resources (CPU or RAM).
There was nothing I could do but just watch my machine croak. =\
----- Original Message -----
From: ktb <xyf@inetnebr.com>
To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 1999 8:38 AM
Subject: 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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