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- From: dennisf@miles.com (Dennis Flaherty)
- Subject: Re: Freeze up on X
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.181502.23485@miles.com>
- Organization: Miles, Inc. Diagnostics Divis.
- References: <1993Jan21.030531.3702@news.uiowa.edu>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 18:15:02 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan21.030531.3702@news.uiowa.edu> miranda@suspicion.eng.uiowa.edu (Johann Miranda) writes:
- > Hello everyone. I have experienced the following problem in my machine and I
- > wonder if anybody else has.
- >
- > When I have xloadimage running a pic on the background and I have 2-3
- > other things going such as two editing sessions and (I think it was) a
- > telnet session, my 486/33 w 8megs RAM just froze...........
- >
- > Am I pushing too hard here? I mean, for my configuration... Only 8 megs swap.
- >
- > Has anyone else experienced the same problem?
- > Should I add more swap, more memory or should I run fewer things?
-
- This is the same problem I reported a couple days ago. I also have a
- 486/33 with 8MB ram, but I doubt that has much to do with it. The
- problem seems to occur with heavy disk usage-- for you it's xloadimage,
- for me it's using xv-- so that the swapper is used. I had thought that
- using a swap *partition* had solved my problem but it crept back
- yesterday evening.
-
- Here's another clue. Try this: when your system freezes, running X, try
- MOVING THE MOUSE. It's weird!! But moving the mouse actually makes the
- system run! Stop moving the mouse, and the system freezes again. And
- this only happens with 0.99.3, not 0.99.2.
-
- So the bug can be in lots of places. Maybe it's the ext fs code, if
- anything has changed, since I noticed my system didn't freeze as
- completely if I moved the program, xv, and the data files to a non-efs
- partition (I haven't completely removed efs from my tests; my home
- directory is on one). Maybe it's in the serial code, since I have a
- serial mouse. Or it's in the scheduler, since it seems to need a serial
- irq to get going again. If anybody can think of another test for me to
- run, please let me know.
-
-
- Dennis, who waves his mouse to get his system to run
- --
- Dennis T. Flaherty dennisf@Miles.com
- Miles, Inc. dflahert@chekov.helios.nd.edu
- Diagnostics Division (Diabetes B.U.)
- My doctor says Mylanta, but my boss says Alka-Seltzer!
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