Ec|ipse wrote: > > Hello. > I've been using slackware since around 3.0 and about 3 months ago > started reformatting/installing the various dist's to see and form my > own opinions of the various dist's. I was very impressed with SuSE 5.3 > as the file structure was more similar with slack then the others I had > tried. > My problem is that while running SuSE, after about a day, the hard > drive light would light and stay lit permanetely and after about 3 days > the system would lock forcing me to do a reset. The longest uptime I was > able to accrue was 4 days and 20 hours +/- some minutes. > > Hardware: > Pentium 133 with 48MB RAM > approx. 8 gigs of HD space and 94MB swap space > SCSI is aha152x (SCSI Soundblaster 16) running 4GIG of the 8 > MB is a hot-541 pci > NE2000 ethernet connected to an ascend pipeline 25 > USR33.6 modem > Logitech Trackball > > Distributions: > SuSE 5.3 devel/network packages (std tweaking for PPP/etc..) > Slackware 3.6 devel/network packages (std tweaking as above) > rolled my own kernels for both dist's using the same > setup files, all drivers are compiled into the kernel > with the exception of the NE2000 driver which HAS to > be moduler. > > Software: > AfterStep 1.5.X > Netscape 4.5 > Nedit 5.0.2 > Filerunner 2.5 > BitchX-75p1+Tcl1.5/Linux 2.0.35 on ansi-xterm > those are the main programs I use > > What makes this even more strange is that I never experienced this > problem while running slack, the other dist's I only kept loaded about 2 > days before I got fed up with them so I have no other comparisons, SuSE > was the only one I really liked and really want to continue using but > not at the expense of stability. > I even reloaded Slackware 3.6 and am currently runing on day 16 for > uptime. Has anyone else experienced this or have any clues? I had a similar experience running KDE 1.0 with 64MB RAM and a small swap partition. I got rid of KDE and the problem went away. George - To get out of this list, please send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/ and the archiv at http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html
