It is likely that some system resources are reaching there limit. Such as number of processes ro maximum number of files. One way to know about these is through /proc file system. If it is a genuine reason that system resources are reaching the maximum limit, you may be able to increase the limits through 'sysctl'. Most likely it will be an application of misconfigured system which is likely to do this kind of thing. You may think about what changes have been made to the system since you started to see this behaviour. Also check if any program is suffering from memoty leak.
I hope it helps, - Prabhat Ranjan On Friday 01 November 2002 11:02 am, you wrote: > Hello Linux Giants, > I have some very peculiar problem in my RHL 8.3 linux box. When I came in > the morning the error which was displaying on the screen was "Killing to > try the idle processes" and the system was not responding at all. I also > tried from other screen but system was not responding. When I switched off > and booted again then system started working without any problem. It has > happened 3 times.Why it is happening? What are the idle processes which > system was trying to kill? where and in which file I can get the detail > info about these so that I may understand the problem?thanks in advance. > Karan Singh > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This sf.net email is sponsored by: See the NEW Palm > Tungsten T handheld. Power & Color in a compact size! > http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?palm0001en > _______________________________________________ > linux-india-help mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help -- ******************************************************************** Prof. Prabhat Ranjan, Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology (DA-IICT), Gandhinagar - 382009 (Gujarat) - India Web Page : http://www.da-iict.org Phone : (079) 3265553 (Direct) (079) 3243800 (PBX) Fax : 91-79-3243588 ******************************************************************** ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: See the NEW Palm Tungsten T handheld. Power & Color in a compact size! http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?palm0001en _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
