From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 15 21:56:11 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA08641 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 15 Jun 1998 21:56:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (metriclient-2.uoregon.edu [128.223.172.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA08569 for ; Mon, 15 Jun 1998 21:56:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id VAA02769; Mon, 15 Jun 1998 21:55:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 15 Jun 1998 21:55:52 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Eduardo Viruena Silva cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sudden 2.2.6 reboot In-Reply-To: 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 On Fri, 12 Jun 1998, Eduardo Viruena Silva wrote: > > Hello FreeBSD Gurus! > > I have a problem that I cannot understand. > > When my FreeBSD-2.2.6 box is displaying graphical information > (ghostscript, xdvi, gnuplot, ImageMagick, etc) it seems to > be allocating memory and freeing it. It is ok. But if I make > for too long, my system suddenly freezes and reboots. > > Do you have any idea of what is happening? Probably out of swap. Keep an eye on top or swapinfo while you're using these programs. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major NOTICE: Make sure your mailer replies to dwhite@resnet or I won't get it! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message