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- From: ricks@odin.isc-br.com (Rick Schaeffer 99)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.amiga
- Subject: Re: 2.1 Kernel bug workaround..??
- Message-ID: <1992Aug18.011807.27495@isc-br.isc-br.com>
- Date: 18 Aug 92 01:18:07 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug17.213613.28703@nntpd.lkg.dec.com> barrett@pamsrc.enet.dec.com writes:
- >
- >
- >You could do what I do. Add a crontab entry that reboots your system
- >every night at 3am. Since I added that, I see a panic perhaps once
- >a month now rather than once a week.
- >
-
- You might just keep an eye on the X server (use "ps -el | fgrep X") and
- kill it when it get's too big. In my experience, it's the main (or "only")
- culprit and it's much quicker to just kill it. NOTE: if you are running
- with xdm, just logging off isn't enough...you have to go to the console
- as root and actually "kill" the server (whose pid shows up in the ps
- output from the example above). xdm will automatically respawn it.
- I suppose that someone could come up with a script that did this
- automatically...personally I just keep an eye on it (it doesn't grow
- all *that* fast :-) ) and kill it when it's size gets up over 6 meg
- or so.
-
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