On Friday 01 February 2002 10:58, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote: > How come many of you have server up times of many days and even months? > I find that after approx. 2-3 days I need to reboot my MDK 8 box else > the modem will not respond when I use kppp and the Software Manager only > partially displays. I have 64 Mb of RAM and a separate 32 Mb video card.
Actually, the uptime a server (perhaps running only text-mode apps) can achieve is completely irrelevant to that of a desktop machine that runs X, a window manager, and loads up a new app every few minutes. Bragging rights, that's all. But you can restart X (ie exit to the login screen, then restart X and reload the window manager) without rebooting. That will most likely get rid of any zombie programs still using up memory and the uptime counter will keep right on ticking. Once the Pan newsreader froze my X screen solid. *Nothing* worked - except CTL-ALT-F1 which put me in a console from where I could issue a "killall pan". CTL-ALT-F7 then put me right back in a smoothly working X screen, with Pan gone. Now with a, shall we say, lesser OS that would have been a reboot for sure. -- Michel Clasquin, D Litt et Phil (Unisa) [EMAIL PROTECTED]/unisa.ac.za http://www.geocities.com/clasqm This message was posted from a Microsoft-free PC All in all, you're just another brick in the wall- Pink Floyd
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