Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1998 17:14:02 -0500 From: "George Vagner" <vagner@kf7nn.com> To: "Jeff Gray" <jwg@cm110119.cableco-op.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Another way to solve a 'frozen' system? Message-ID: <01bde288$7a3eaf40$0400a8c0@ginger.kf7nn.com>
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i had the same exact problem while trying to read a 900k gif file in netscape but i didnt realize to telnet in and try a shutdown. I hit the reset switch and all came back ok luckily. i wanted to use a different browser but not too much comes close to netscape's userability and handyness, maybe that is why i still use win95 for email stuff. kind of hard to look at an attached gif in elm huh? -----Original Message----- From: Jeff Gray <jwg@cm110119.cableco-op.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Date: Wednesday, September 16, 1998 10:59 PM Subject: Another way to solve a 'frozen' system? >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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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