Thank you guys for the replies, I don't have access to the machine right now but I'll check /var/log/messages for oom messages and get back to you ASAP.
Fabrizio On Sun, Jul 24, 2005 at 12:24:19PM +0200, Richard Fish wrote: > Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: > > >Hi, > > > >On Sun, 24 Jul 2005 10:52:06 +0200 > >Fabrizio Prosperi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > >>Doing a long emerge -up world aterm kept crashing and I thought it was > >>an emerge problem, but then I focused on a particular emerge > >>(mozilla-firefox) and I realised it was it. > >> > >>Just doing cat /var/log/portage/<that-log>.log > >>is making aterm crash again, but not konsole. > >> > >>I guess I something with swappiness settings, but how to fix it? > >> > >> > > > >Hm, don't know about aterm and its memory management, but that's for > >sure: _swappiness_ should have absolutely nothing to do with this. The > >swap management isn't up to userspace applications, that's kernel's > >matter. Well, there might be some small probability left that your swap > >management is somewhat hosed due to bugs in the kernel but that is very > >unlikely and wouldn't explain why these conditions only occur with > >aterm and only affect aterm. > > > >-hwh > > > > > > This may be a shot in the dark, since I don't use aterm, but can you > check /var/log/messages and see if maybe the kernel is killing aterm due > to excessive memory usage? The search string is "oom" for "out-of-memory". > > -Richard > > -- > [email protected] mailing list > > -- [email protected] mailing list
