On 18-May-98 Brad Alexander playfully chanted:
| I'm running E-BETA-0.13.3, Imlib-1.3, ImageMagick-4.0.5, libjpeg-6a,
| libpng-0.96, etc on a RedHat 5.0 system with XFree86. P-100 with 64MB
| RAM/64MB swap, Diamond Stealth 64 (PCI) with 2MB DRAM.
|
| I have noticed that when running E in 16bit color, when using heavy
| grafx-type apps like Gimp and Netscape, the machine will lock up. I have
| done the same as root (running WindowMaker), with more Gimp pictures open
| and Netscape and did not have a problem. I have been playing with
| customizing xdm, and the default bit depth was at 8 bits. When logged in
| to my user account in 8 bits, I got one generic Eterm open and it locked
| again...These were hard freezes, I was not even able to three-finger
| salute. I have noticed an increase in the frequency of these lockups
| since upgrading RedHat and the new libs. With 4.2 and all the old libs, I
| would get a random lockup after about 2 weeks. Now it is every couple of
| days, but seemingly only when running E.
Just asking--have you tried to see whether a memory leak (with that combo...)
is making you run out of swap without you noticing? Real far shot, but that's
all I've got.
Second question: you can't use the keyboard, but can you move your mouse?
Could just be X locking up, and taking the keyboard with it. 'Sbeen known to
happen. If it takes the pointing device too, it'll look like a NMI-freeze too
so if it reaches that point, it's indistinguishable.
Try the process of elimination--disable the java or don't use Netscape and play
the odds--see how long you can go without a freeze. Netscape's been known to
have memory leaks.
(Mind you, 8bpp and a total of 128MB doesn't make it any more likely.)
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