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Jeff Gray wrote:
> 
> 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
> 
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Same problem here with a 32meg of ram system, and some swap space (75
meg or more). I just dont understand why all freeze. Sometime, when I
have luck, it simply shutdown the xfree86 hehe. 

blah, when I have luck.
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