> your desktop and are not even able to save. But one impt. difference is > with an X Window hang, you can kill X Window and restart it again much > quicker without needing to reboot. > > Even if the console hangs and you can't do the ctrl-backspace-backspace > thingy, the kernel is still alive and you can restart both the console > and X Window remotely without rebooting. (Something similar to this is
But in the case of a "Swap Death" problem its easier though to just reboot the machine rather than wait for your ssh prompt. This happened to me several times and it took me a very long time to kill some X applications so I could recover the system. Incidentally, my "Swap Death" problem is related to Linux getting fat. The problem occured because I upgraded to MDK 9 but did not redo my partitions. My previous RH system did not have any problems with my 64-128Mb ( I forgot) swap partition but apparently it was not enough for MDK 9 and I would sometimes get "Swap Death". Holden -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
