Try using a temporary swapfile to increase swap and see if the problem goes away - if so your up for a re-partitioning. I regularly run out of swap with gnumeric (often uses over a gig of it) and a quick swapon saves the system from coming to an abrupt halt. Windows dynamic swap is actually a much more system friendly method of handling swap than what linux uses - yes linux is more efficient, but that goes out the window when swap hits the wall!
dd if=/dev/zero bs=1024 count=1024000 of=/extraswap #put it in the root mkswap /extraswap swapon /extraswap swapon -s (for swap usage) swapoff /extraswap #turn off when not needed as it can slow the system down - will transfer data out of swap on closedown, so make sure there is room first! Downside is a noticable slowing of the system over a swap partition, but at least its still working! I keep a swapfile around for a quick swapon when needed - but I really must re-partition soon! BillK On Sat, 2002-08-03 at 20:55, Randy Kramer wrote: > Just thought I'd provide a little bit of extra information -- > * I have 256 MB of RAM, less 2 MB used by my on board SiS 630/730 > video "card" (and Linux knows about the missing 2 MB), I have 500 MB + > of swap. > * I typically run top in a virtual terminal (but don't always pay > close attention to it) > * On the first crash I might have run out of RAM / SWAP, because at > least once the RAM was essentially all used and so was the swap (maybe > 10 MB free swap) > * On the recent crash, I think it is less likely that I ran out of > RAM and SWAP as I have been trying to watch it more closely. Last time > I looked I had on the order of 200 MB of SWAP free (and a negligible > amount of RAM) -- after the crash I had 100 MB of RAM and 400 MB of SWAP > free > > Randy Kramer > > Randy Kramer wrote: > > PROBLEM: My problem is, twice I've had one window / instance of Mozilla > > crash, and each time it's closed all the open Mozilla windows. So, I > > guess I was not really getting separate instances of Mozilla, but they > > were all sharing one executable or some portion thereof. > > ---- > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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