From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 17 15:15:06 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA20221 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 17 Sep 1998 15:15:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mutsgo.kf7nn.com (mutsgo.kf7nn.com [204.251.27.213]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA20162 for ; Thu, 17 Sep 1998 15:14:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from vagner@vagner.com) Received: from ginger.kf7nn.com (ginger.kf7nn.com [192.168.0.4]) by mutsgo.kf7nn.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id RAA12866; Thu, 17 Sep 1998 17:13:11 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from vagner@vagner.com) From: "George Vagner" To: "Jeff Gray" , Subject: Re: Another way to solve a 'frozen' system? Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1998 17:14:02 -0500 Message-ID: <01bde288$7a3eaf40$0400a8c0@ginger.kf7nn.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.71.1712.3 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.71.1712.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To: 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