[RLUG] System freeze

[Dennis Bagley]

Not using xlockmore - in fact I have screensaver disabled.  BUT...
I didn't turn off the power management feature.  What do you think?
Could that be the culprit?


On Wed, 2005-08-17 at 11:43 -0700, Sebastian Smith wrote:
> Are you using xlockmore or another package to lock your screen, or display 
> a screensaver.  I've had issues with opengl-based screen savers (xlock) 
> locking my X display when they've run for a long time.


How do I check on the a memory problem with firefox?

> 
> I've also had issues with firefox hogging tons of memory (very 
> memory-leakish).  If your using it you should keep an eye on its memory 
> useage.
> 
> - Sebastian
> 
> 
> On Wed, 17 Aug 2005, Ben Johnson wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 10:16:16AM -0700, Dennis Bagley wrote:
> >>
> >> Ideas?  Recommendations?
> >
> > it may only be X freezing up on you.  sometimes ctrl+alt+f1 or
> > ctrl+alt+bckspc works to get out of a frozen X session.
> >
> > maybe some process on the box has found a way to use all userspace
> > processing cycles.  icmp packets are handled at a very low level in the
> > OS...  so often when a system isn't responsive and can't even be
> > connected to with ssh, it will still respond to pings.  that's a good
> > test.
> >
> > keyboard events, I think, are also handled at a very low level but if X
> > is frozen then you won't see any echo.  need a console for that.
> >
> > are you getting any messages in the logs that might give a clue?
> > sometimes you'll see a kernel oops.  when my laptop crashes because of
> > my windows nic driver I see in the logs messages about about packets
> > that are too large.  or disk read errors/timeouts...  stuff like that.
> >
> > I hear compiling a kernel is a good way to test memory.  if your
> > compiler segfaults (sig11), you probably have a bad stick.  I've heard
> > this can be more reliable then memtest programs.
> >
> > - Ben
> >
> >
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