From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 16 18:26:05 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA05230 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 16 Sep 1998 18:26:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cm110119.cableco-op.com (cm110119.cableco-op.com [206.24.110.119]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA05011 for ; Wed, 16 Sep 1998 18:24:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jwg@cm110119.cableco-op.com) Received: (from jwg@localhost) by cm110119.cableco-op.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA09534; Wed, 16 Sep 1998 18:26:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jwg) Message-ID: <19980916182613.18111@cm110119.cableco-op.com> Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 18:26:13 -0700 From: Jeff Gray To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Another way to solve a 'frozen' system? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Another way to solve a 'frozen' system? Running 2.2.6 with 150MB of swap. Afterstep manager. Usually Netscape closes itself as I get close to the swap maximum - swap fills up from either a memory leak or the sub directories from bigbrother monitoring. This time I just let it get to 99% and then 100% of the swap space utilized. As expected, the screen froze. Mouse froze. I could not get back to the command line, could not use control alt backspace, could not even use control alt delete. So, on another server I telnetted to the box - not really expecting to connect. Login was fine. Swap space had fully recovered to 150MB available. Ran top and all looked fine - low load, nothing filled. I su'd to root and started killing processes. Could not kill any process that would free the system. Finally, I just went shutdown -r now and the frozen box rebooted. Is there any other way [other that the obvious hard restart using the power key] to solve this? Guess I do not really understand what was keeping me from getting to the command line to restart xwindows. Thanks Jeff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message