You have no swap space. You used all your memory. You sent your computer into "swap hell". Add some swap space and it shouldn't happen as often.
-derek Quoting Karl Larsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Here is top from my old computer: > top - 08:51:03 up 3:04, 1 user, load average: 0.06, 0.08, 0.17 > Tasks: 127 total, 1 running, 124 sleeping, 0 stopped, 2 zombie > Cpu(s): 7.5%us, 3.8%sy, 0.0%ni, 88.6%id, 0.0%wa, 0.1%hi, 0.0%si, > 0.0%st > Mem: 482776k total, 475472k used, 7304k free, 29076k buffers > Swap: 0k total, 0k used, 0k free, 163588k cached > > As you can see I have just 500kb of RAM and a pentium cpu that never > seems to be used much on a percentage basis. When my computer went into > a sudden freeze it was surprising. The curser would sit in one place for > 20 seconds and then move quick to another. I wanted to run top and see > what was happening. But it was impossible. > > Just before I had the problem I wanted to yum install filename and it > started out and then died. Then the freeze and I looked at the hard > drive light and it was on solid. This means it was using the swap > partition on the hard drive. My HD's are not fast. > > I rebooted and then read /var/log/messages and found this was happening > while I had a frozen screen: > > Jul 23 19:10:20 k5di NetworkManager: <info> Updating allowed wireless > network lists. > Jul 23 19:10:20 k5di NetworkManager: <WARN> nm_dbus_get_networks_cb(): > error received: org.freedesktop.NetworkManagerInfo.NoNetworks - There > are no wireless networks stored.. > Jul 23 19:10:20 k5di pcscd: winscard.c:219:SCardConnect() Reader E-Gate > 0 0 Not Found > Jul 23 19:10:20 k5di last message repeated 4 times > Jul 23 19:10:37 k5di ntpd[1883]: Cannot find existing interface for > address 194.88.2.60 > Jul 23 19:10:37 k5di ntpd_initres[1894]: ntpd indicates no data available! > Jul 23 19:10:37 k5di ntpd[1883]: Cannot find existing interface for > address 195.197.239.163 > Jul 23 19:10:37 k5di ntpd_initres[1894]: ntpd indicates no data available! > Jul 23 19:10:38 k5di ntpd[1883]: Cannot find existing interface for > address 192.36.143.150 > Jul 23 19:10:38 k5di ntpd_initres[1894]: ntpd indicates no data available! > Jul 23 19:11:36 k5di ntpd[1883]: Cannot find existing interface for > address 194.88.2.60 > Jul 23 19:11:36 k5di ntpd_initres[1894]: ntpd indicates no data available! > Jul 23 19:11:36 k5di ntpd[1883]: Cannot find existing interface for > address 195.197.239.163 > Jul 23 19:11:37 k5di ntpd_initres[1894]: ntpd indicates no data available! > Jul 23 19:11:37 k5di ntpd[1883]: Cannot find existing interface for > address 192.36.143.150 > Jul 23 19:11:37 k5di ntpd_initres[1894]: ntpd indicates no data available! > Jul 23 19:12:36 k5di ntpd[1883]: Cannot find existing interface for > address 194.88.2.60 > Jul 23 19:12:37 k5di ntpd_initres[1894]: ntpd indicates no data available! > Jul 23 19:12:37 k5di ntpd[1883]: Cannot find existing interface for > address 195.197.239.163 > Jul 23 19:12:37 k5di ntpd_initres[1894]: ntpd indicates no data available! > Jul 23 19:12:37 k5di ntpd[1883]: Cannot find existing interface for > address 192.36.143.150 > Jul 23 19:12:37 k5di ntpd_initres[1894]: ntpd indicates no data available! > Jul 23 19:13:37 k5di ntpd[1883]: Cannot find existing interface for > address 194.88.2.60 > Jul 23 19:13:37 k5di ntpd_initres[1894]: ntpd indicates no data available! > Jul 23 19:13:37 k5di ntpd[1883]: Cannot find existing interface for > address 195.197.239.163 > Jul 23 19:13:37 k5di ntpd_initres[1894]: ntpd indicates no data available! > Jul 23 19:13:37 k5di ntpd[1883]: Cannot find existing interface for > address 192.36.143.150 > Jul 23 19:13:37 k5di ntpd_initres[1894]: ntpd indicates no data available! > Jul 23 19:14:35 k5di ntpd[1883]: Listening on interface #4 eth0, > fe80::250:2cff:fea8:69f3#123 Enabled > Jul 23 19:14:35 k5di ntpd[1883]: Listening on interface #5 eth0, > 192.168.0.2#123 Enabled > Jul 23 19:19:23 k5di ntpd[1883]: synchronized to 194.88.2.60, stratum 3 > Jul 23 19:19:23 k5di ntpd[1883]: kernel time sync status change 0001 > > I looked up man ntpd and it is the software that sets the clock time in > your computer. It is complaining that it can't get to the internet! I > saw that NetworkManager was looking for a WiFi source of the Internet > which has NEVER existed on this computer. While NM has the Internet from > eth0 turned off ntpd has gone wild about this and the yum install was > stopped and the freeze occured. > > I need help to understand this. It isn't this that used up all the RAM. > But this tells me NM was doing stupid things which did not help the > situation. > > > -- > > Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI > Linux User > #450462 http://counter.li.org. > _______________________________________________ > NetworkManager-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list > -- Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB) URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/ PP-ASEL-IA N1NWH [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP key available _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
