That also happened to me a few weeks ago while I was running Netscape. I heard my drive going nuts, and I ran df to check the free space. Well, the free space kept getting lower and lower and ... finally my machine stopped and I got a Kernel Panic.
After I rebooted however, fsck found bad sectors on the disk. YMMV. ----- Original Message ----- From: Patrick Colbeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Barry Kauler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 1999 6:46 AM Subject: RE: I am not impressed with Debian so far. > Hey, my hard drive did the sudden thrashing thing last night too. Its > never done it before (well it has in NT but not in Linux). All I was > doing was reading mail remotely over a dialup line using xemacs in a > kterm in KDE 1.1.1 (from snowcrash). It stopped after a while (about 4 > minutes) and has been fine since. This never happened before in RedHat > or with Hamm. Is this a KDE thing perhaps ?. I am running on an AST M > series Laptop which has 48Mb ram and a 2GB Linux partition with about > 1300MB free and a 92MB swap file. > > Pat > > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > >