On Wed, 05 Apr 2000, you wrote:
> I'm asking to find out if others have had this same problem. Once in a while when
>I'm using KDE, the mouse-pointer would freeze,
> the keyboard stop responding, and the harddrive become very active. It would
>continue that way for over an hour at times and then
> result in jumping back to the Mandrake login menu. I'm using Mdk7 and I had the same
>problem with Mdk6.0 & Mdk6.1. What in KDE is
> causing the harddrive & CPU to work so hard that I'm no longer able to use the mouse
>or do a ctrl-alt-bkspace?
>
How much RAM do you have, and how much SWAP space? What it
SOUNDS like is that you're running out of RAM *and* running
out of Swap space. If you've got less than 32 megs of RAM
and don't have a TON of swap, I'd *STRONGLY* suggest that
you need to upgrade your RAM.
John
