From owner-freebsd-current Sat Oct 25 20:54:13 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id UAA15203 for current-outgoing; Sat, 25 Oct 1997 20:54:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current) Received: from hwcn.org (main.hwcn.org [199.212.94.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id UAA15198 for ; Sat, 25 Oct 1997 20:54:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hoek@hwcn.org) Received: from james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca (ac199@james.hwcn.org [199.212.94.66]) by hwcn.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id XAA05216; Sat, 25 Oct 1997 23:54:49 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (ac199@localhost) by james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id XAA01395; Sat, 25 Oct 1997 23:55:12 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca: ac199 owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 25 Oct 1997 23:55:12 -0400 (EDT) From: Tim Vanderhoek X-Sender: ac199@james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: Alex , current Subject: Re: out of swap space causes hang In-Reply-To: <19620.877827599@time.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 25 Oct 1997, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > Are you sure it hung or did the X server just get shot down for eating > too much memory? Since getting shot down leaves your screen and > keyboard in a seriously hosed state, unless you can actually telnet > in or ping the box externally, it looks just like a crash. Shouldn't the fact that something (ie. the X server in this case) got shot down be recorded in some log, somewhere? That would make it easy to distinguish a crash from a killed X server on the reboot, at least... -- Outnumbered? Maybe. Outspoken? Never! tIM...HOEk