Thanks, Szemir. Here's what I get from df: Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda9 21164916 4287636 15802132 22% / /dev/hda8 101089 17303 78567 19% /boot none 256456 0 256456 0% /dev/shm /dev/hda6 10231392 106896 10124496 2% /home/pat/Data
I apologize for my lack of Linux knowledge (ie, command-line ignorance) -- but I don't even know how to check var/log/messages. For what it's worth, I don't get any error messages booting up when RH8 goes through a long checklist. Pat Pat On Sun, 2003-02-02 at 17:08, Bogi wrote: > Hi Pat. > The crashing rate is above avarage for sure. > I would suggest the following barring faulty ram and or faulty hdd. > See if you have enough diskspace, browsers tend to use up (large) amounts of > diskspace to cache webstuff you access. > df command should do the trick, If your home partition , if you have one > seperate, and you should, must have atleast 100 megs free, mozilla for > starters defaults to 50 megs for chache size, the others are not mutch > different. > If you have a single partition for your home and root (/) , the exhustion of > disk space could lead to unpredictabel behaviour (crash) when (/) gets full. > also check /var/log/messages . This is the (main) logfile, see if there are > any error messages, they are usually very helpful in situations like yours. > Changing your hardware would most definately improve on the situation. Most > of the (built-in) cards are slightly different then their stand-alone > counterparts, and not being able to turn-off / diable yours is cairtinly a > very strong indication of your problems. > So my initial suggestion is a log reading, find some error messagegs relating > to graphics_display_adapter or anything else. I have seen really strange > behaviour from motherboards like yours. > Cheers > Szemir > On Sunday 02 February 2003 16:42, you wrote: > > I've been using Red Hat 8.0 on a Dell Dimension 2350 (2GH Celeron / > > 512MB RAM) since early January. Bottom-line impression: I love Linux. > > > > But there's one problem I'd love to resolve. Linux has crashed while > > surfing the Web, on average, at least every two hours (during at least > > 50 hours total browsing). > > > > Konqueror seems more stable than Galeon and Opera, and all seem somewhat > > more stable than Mozilla. There's little consistency. Mozilla, for > > example, crashed on the third page I accessed today (Yahoo News); but > > when I rebooted I surfed that page and many others for more than an hour > > without hanging. > > > > Meanwhile, I've worked more than 40 hours in OpenOffice Writer and can > > only recall it hanging once. Evolution rarely hangs and the CD player > > (kscd) hasn't crashed yet > > > > To compare OSes on the same machine, I've spent about 15 hours surfing > > in Windows 2000 (using Opera, Internet Explorer and Phoenix) and had > > only two crashes -- a much better average than Linux. In each OS, > > control-alt-delete won't force a reboot after a crash. > > > > I usually work in KDE, but didn't document any improvement during about > > four hours in GNOME (on Mozilla, Opera, Galeon and Konqueror). > > > > Another quirk in Linux: the hard drive sometimes runs for three minutes > > for no reason. > > > > Also, Evolution is very slow (maybe 10 seconds) opening HTML e-mails. Is > > this normal, or possibly related to my Web-browsing problem? > > > > BACKGROUND: Inside the Dell box, there are NO CARDS. Everything -- video > > controller, network controller, etc. -- is embedded in the motherboard. > > (Luckily there were three empty slots.) The video controller -- which > > wouldn't work with Linux -- could NEITHER BE REMOVED NOR DISABLED. > > > > As a non-technical person, I was in over my head long before this point. > > I'm much obliged to CLUG member Johnny Stork for coming up with the > > various workarounds that enabled me to use Linux my new computer. (I > > just wish I'd talked to him before buying the Dell.) > > > > The workaround Johnny came up for the video controller was to set up a > > dual-monitor system and to designate the new video card (HIS TNT2 M64 > > PCI) as primary and the built-in video controller as secondary. (So the > > original controller which couldn't be disabled is now outputting to a > > non-existent monitor.) > > > > Does anyone have any suggestions? Do I have any options beyond selling > > the new $800 Dell at a discount to my brother-in-law (who prefers XP) > > and starting from scratch on another new computer?? > > > > Any comments or anecdotes (e.g., your own experience with bundled, > > brand-name systems, both positive and negative) will be much > > appreciated. > > > > Thanks for reading. Sorry it's so long. > > > > Pat
