Re: Linux crashes a lot
Quoting Eric G . Miller (egm2@jps.net):
> On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 02:52:06AM -0500, John Reinke wrote:
> > doesn't make me happy. Twice, it has crashed while running dselect from a
> > console.
>
> This indicates possibly a hardware or configuration problem.
> dselect/apt can be fairly resource intensive -- if your box is
> overheating it might crash. The other possibility is too little
> ram/swap which may cause a VFS error with the kernel (have you checked
> the logs?).
On occasion I have run a 32MB machine with no swap partition (having
been borrowed for installation files) and dpkg gives lots of out-of-
memory messages. Running a second instance of dpkg (-l) has
crashed the primary one (-i, doing all the work). But the kernel never
blinked, and restoring the swap/repeating the dpkg command completed
successfully.
So I agree it may be hardware.
Cheers,
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