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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: hanging
From:       Yves Glodt <y.glodt () vo ! lu>
Date:       2001-08-24 16:07:05
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On Friday 24 August 2001 17:55, JES wrote:
> On Friday 24 August 2001 17:21, Ben Burton wrote:
> > > Every two days or so some process starts eating so much memory,
> > > that I can't do anything anymore. I just hear my swapspace.
> >
> > If this is actually locking up your machine to the point where you
> > have to switch it off and on again, you might want to look through
> > your linux distribution for swapd.  This is a daemon that creates
> > new swap files on the fly when your machine runs out of swap space;
> > it will mean everything gets slow as hell but it won't lock up on
> > you any more.
> >
> > Also (if you're not doing it already) try using the System Monitor
> > applet on your KDE panel.  It can give you displays for memory and
> > swap space so you have an early warning before everything runs out
> > and you can kill KLargeProcess or whatever you're running. :)
> >
> > Ben.
> >
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>
> Hi,
> Well, if it starts to swap, I already can't do anything anymore!
> Yesterday I managed to get to the console after a quick ctrl-alt-f1,
> but I couldnt already login anymore.
> I'm running 2.4.2 kernel, so I'll upgrade first to see if this solves
> the problem. If not, I'll try swapd I think.

Well i'm on 249 an VM is still not OK
I have 192MB ram and 192MB swapfile, and often after a long KDE 
session, my swap is at least half-full, often more, but when I look at 
my ktimemon, the memory-line is only 50% blue (;-))
Linus once said: swap = 2*RAM for 2.4.X

> Thanks,
> Edwin.
>
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