Re: system hang while using Gimp aggressively
Paul Reavis <preavis@partnersoft.com> writes:
> Eric G. Miller <egm2@jps.net> wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 3 Dec 2001 08:44:54 -0500, Paul Reavis <preavis@partnersoft.com> 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 whole machine - it responded to pings but not
> > > telnet. I left it overnight and came back the next day; it was still
> > > hung. So I had to hard reset the machine, yuck.
> >
> > Ctrl-Alt-Backspace didn't work? (or do you have that turned off?). I
> > found that the OOM killer in 2.4.14 works... Was running a process
> > that sucked up huge amounts of memory, and boom "Killed" was printed
> > in the terminal. Subsequent attempts to run the program returned
> > immediately with "out of memory errors", even though the system
> > had reclaimed the memory (guess the kernel tracks these errant
> > programs for a little while...).
> >
>
> 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 think it might be a kernel, X or hardware problem.
>
> Essentially it freezes, accepts no input, but X image stays up - ping
> works, but telnet and ssh do not, so no way to get in and terminate
> gracefully.
I would suspect a video card/driver problem. I've had a fair amount
of similar problems using nvidia's proprietary drivers.
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Brian Nelson <nelson@bignachos.com>
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