From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Oct 10 22:52:26 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id WAA02241 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 10 Oct 1997 22:52:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id WAA02231 for ; Fri, 10 Oct 1997 22:52:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from j@uriah.heep.sax.de) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id HAA11251 for freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG; Sat, 11 Oct 1997 07:52:21 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.7/8.8.5) id HAA16224; Sat, 11 Oct 1997 07:50:06 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19971011075006.ZE13142@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Sat, 11 Oct 1997 07:50:06 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Run out of swap References: X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: ; from Brian N. Handy on Oct 10, 1997 15:41:51 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Brian N. Handy wrote: > HOWEVER, now what I'm > seeing every so often is that it doesn't kick me out, but instead the > machine just hangs. The clock in the corne of my screen stops, the mouse > stops, the num lock light doesn't go off and off. Fixed and dialated. > Once this happens, it seems like I have to hit the reset button. Well, i think the largest process is being killed. If this is incidentally your X server, you are hosed. Try to avoid the situation. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)