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From: Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com>
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Subject: Re: X session crashes after running out of swap space
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On Wed, 8 Oct 2003, Jonathan wrote:

>  I tested the latest source and it seems to work OK. USB scanning works.
> However when i start multiple sessions of Octave, a MatLab clone, and have it
> do huge computations it crashes my Kde 3.1.3 desktop because the computer has
> run our of swap space. This did not happen in 4.8. If the machine ran out of
> swap space in 4.8, it just killed the offending application.

It still is, its just that it thinks the "offending application" is X:

> Oct  8 21:35:22 analytic /kernel: pid 66764 (XFree86), uid 0, was killed: out
> of swap space

Really, memory is cheap. Go buy some more.  256MB isn't really enough if
you are running large graphical applications.

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