Re: Why does Linux crash?

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On 04/19/2011 09:57 PM, Borden Rhodes wrote:
> Good evening,
>
> I do mean this earnestly and, despite my frustration, I am not trying
> to flame the good people of Debian, GNU or Linux.  Nevertheless, I
> have to ask: why is it that in 2011, the world's greatest operating
> system lets Eclipse seize control of my computer, eat up 2 GB of RAM,
> monopolise a 2.2 GHz, dual-core processor and flood my hard drive with
> I/O?  I thought that a computer capable of processing over 4 billion
> operations a second could sort itself out in 20 minutes but, alas, I
> had to yank the power.

I'd run top(1) in a terminal window, with the window set to "always on 
top" and watch what happens when you do whatever you do which causes 
Eclipse to consume all resources.

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