Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 18:26:13 -0700 From: Jeff Gray <jwg@cm110119.cableco-op.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Another way to solve a 'frozen' system? Message-ID: <19980916182613.18111@cm110119.cableco-op.com>
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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
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