I had my system choke and die a couple of times for no good reason
last week (after 51 days of uptime!). The first time was a blown
fuse. The second, I had both WP and staroffice open (dumb) trying to
read an excel spreadsheet some cretin sent me. Started hearing a lot
of disk activity, suddenly the entire system was frozen. No mouse
action, couldn't toggle the NumLock, nothing. Hard reset, no harm
done, was fine for a day. I figured I just ran out of memory since I
had Netscape running in the background also and resolved to pay more
attention to such things in the future.
The next day, I was just playing around in Netscape, loading a
sequence of annoyingly graphics-intensive web pages, and started
hearing the disk activity again. Lagged over to a xterm and hit
free: I had zero free swap (out of 64MB). Killed X real quick,
tried again, was fine.
Netscape, in windows, in my experience, always had a tendency to make
a system run progressively slower until either netscape was closed or
everything crashed. I hadn't seen it under linux and thought it had
gotten fixed, but now I'm not so sure. Maybe that's what you ran
into, too?
Rob
On Sun, Mar 28, 1999 at 06:36:34PM -0500, Daniel J. Brosemer wrote:
On the advice of friends I decided to give enlightenment a go. (and I must
say, from what I saw, it's beautiful!)
A strange thing happened, though. I started netscape to browse the
package list at www.debian.org to look for esd (the sound thing that it
complained about not having at startup) and things were working well, I
went to the full package list, it got about 25% loaded, and I hit Alt-F to
do a search. I typed enlightenment figuring I might find some other fun
stuff for it too. Well, I clicked find and my system came to a screeching
halt (mouse wouldn't even move) for about 60sec. Then it went and found
the first thing with enlightenment in the description... odd... ok, move
the find window from over the description so I can see what it was...
window moves about 20pixels... screeching halt... I gave this one 5
minutes and it still didn't come back. ERG!
So, I did a hard reset... fsck whined, made me boot single user to fix a
partition, then I rebooted again... tried E once more only this time not
loading netscape... things were fine for about 1/2 hour. Killed X,
changed my wm back to wmaker, fired up X, started netscape... things fine
for about 1/2 hour... killed X, changed wm back to E, fired up X, started
netscape, 5 minutes, grinding halt... hard reset... fsck whines... now I'm
not bothering with X.
So something weird is going on with E and netscape... any ideas? I'm
liking the look of E, I think if I can get it working I'll keep it!
TIA!
-Dano
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As long as each individual is facing the TV tube alone, formal freedom poses
no threat to privilege.
--Noam Chomsky
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