Hello list,
I was just wondering if anyone here knew of a program (likely a daemon) that
would automatically warn me when the system is about to run out of memory?
You see, I was just composing something on the web in Netscape when a Pine
window I had open abruptly disappeared. Then my swap disk started running
like crazy. I looked at the system monitor in my GNOME panel, and saw to my
dismay that both the "RAM used" and "Swap used" gauges were completely filled.
Damn Netscape and its memory leaks! Fortunately, I was able to save what I
was working on and shut down the browser before the kernel OOM-killed Netscape
like it had Pine.
However, it was a serious interruption, and next time I might not be so
lucky. So, what I'm looking for is a program to warm me *before* it happens
next time, so I can close out of things gracefully to fix the memory problem.
At first, I was thinking of a program to pop up a window in X11, but that
might fail if memory is being consumed quickly. On second thought, something
that simply started beeping the system speaker would be better.
Any suggestions, before I whip up a quick C program?
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Ben Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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