Rob Mahurin wrote: > > I had my system choke and die a couple of times for no good reason > last week (after 51 days of uptime!). The first time was a blown > fuse. The second, I had both WP and staroffice open (dumb) trying to > read an excel spreadsheet some cretin sent me. Started hearing a lot > of disk activity, suddenly the entire system was frozen. No mouse > action, couldn't toggle the NumLock, nothing. Hard reset, no harm > done, was fine for a day. I figured I just ran out of memory since I > had Netscape running in the background also and resolved to pay more > attention to such things in the future.
When I was just get my X running at early 1997 with 8 megs, I sometimes suffer similar symptoms. In fact, the program I was using keep running, but I was unable to do anything else, so I supposed that the windows manager was swapped out entirely. Then, no it don't process further messages from X server. Sad stuff.
