From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 28 13:44:56 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.wcarey.com (mail.wcarey.com [209.181.61.113]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B63515578 for ; Thu, 28 Oct 1999 13:44:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wcarey@wcarey.com) Received: from mail.wcarey.com (mail.wcarey.com [209.181.61.113]) by mail.wcarey.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA67753; Thu, 28 Oct 1999 12:44:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wcarey@wcarey.com) Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1999 12:44:30 -0700 (PDT) From: Woody Carey To: Steven Hugg Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: netscape (or something?) thrashes system In-Reply-To: <19991028011326.1766.rocketmail@web114.yahoomail.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have seen this a well, on 3.2-R, either running netscape or even just mpg123: $ mpg123 -b2048 /cdrom/*.mp3 After a while, I cannot even ever log in on the console, I just have to hit the switch. hmmm... On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, Steven Hugg wrote: > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message