Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 18:13:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Steven Hugg <spiffdude@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: netscape (or something?) thrashes system Message-ID: <19991028011326.1766.rocketmail@web114.yahoomail.com>
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I am running Communicator 4.61 (Linux version) under 3.3-STABLE and have been running into a problem. Occasionally, when using Netscape (it's only happened twice, both times while using Netscape ... not a definite causal relationship, but its a contender) the system will just start thrashing like mad, and X will be very unresponsive to keyboard input. After a few minutes of thrashing, I manage to hit Ctrl-Alt-Backspace and kill X, but the system is still too unresponsive to allow shell commands to execute. Eventually, the disk stops thrashing, and the system only responds to console input and pings. I have to hit the switch. After I exit X, I see these messages: sc0: switch_scr(): sending relsig again sc0: switch_scr(): force reset WAIT_REL, act as if VT_FALSE was seen This is just probably a result of me hitting Ctrl-Alt-F2 to get a console and X being too slow to respond. I stupidly made my swap partition only 36MB and later added 160M on /dev/vn0c. Swap on vnodes is supported, right? Any hints in resolving this problem, or hints on how to properly diagnose it before I have to reboot, would be appreciated. I have a Windows 98 box which has a greater uptime, and it makes me sad :-( Thanks, Steve ===== __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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