Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 23:14:12 -0400 From: Malartre <malartre@aei.ca> To: Jeff Gray <jwg@cm110119.cableco-op.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Another way to solve a 'frozen' system? Message-ID: <36007E84.2172C102@aei.ca> References: <19980916182613.18111@cm110119.cableco-op.com>
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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 > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message 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. -- [Malartre][malartre@aei.ca][http://www.aei.ca/~malartre/] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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