on Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 03:24:20PM -0800, Brian Nelson (nelson@bignachos.com) wrote: > "Karsten M. Self" <kmself@ix.netcom.com> writes: > > > on Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 12:38:34PM +0000, Simon R Tod (S.R.Tod@damtp.cam.ac.uk) wrote: > > > > Don't cross-post. Reply sent to debian-user only. > > > > > My laptop's been left on for the past 48 hours. > > > > Six days here. Uptimes of up to 22 days. > > > > > When I came back to it this morning it was very hot, the fan was > > > kicking in evert minute or two and everything was working really > > > slowly.... > > > > Not unusual if it's working hard or swapping heavily. > > > > > It's now just ceased up completely. The text has disappeared off my > > > xterm and I can't get any movement out of the mouse. > > > > Ditto. > > > > > I don't see how I can do anything but just turn the power off, leave > > > it for a few hours to cool down then reboot. > > > > Try switching to a console. Sometimes your X session is less > > responsive. If you've got a network, try ssh'ing into the box. > > Actually, telnet's better if the box is really struggling, presumably > because setting up an encrypted session takes more CPU power. > > When my box has been really unresponsive, I could usually get in with > telnet, but ssh would time out. Yes, but, well, that means I'd have to ssh into the box, download, install, and start the telnet daemon.... I figure if the box won't let me ssh into it, it's time for magic sysrq or a hard boot. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Home of the brave http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ Land of the free We freed Dmitry! Boycott Adobe! Repeal the DMCA! http://www.freesklyarov.org Geek for Hire http://kmself.home.netcom.com/resume.html
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