I ran top while all this was happening. No process appeared to be using any more than its usual allotment of resources (CPU or RAM).
There was nothing I could do but just watch my machine croak. =\ ----- Original Message ----- From: ktb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 1999 8:38 AM Subject: Re: I am not impressed with Debian so far. > Jim B wrote: > > > > That also happened to me a few weeks ago while I was running Netscape. I > > heard my drive going nuts, and I ran df to check the free space. Well, the > > free space kept getting lower and lower and ... finally my machine stopped > > and I got a Kernel Panic. > > > > After I rebooted however, fsck found bad sectors on the disk. > > > > YMMV. > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: Patrick Colbeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: Barry Kauler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Cc: <debian-user@lists.debian.org> > > Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 1999 6:46 AM > > Subject: RE: I am not impressed with Debian so far. > > > > > Hey, my hard drive did the sudden thrashing thing last night too. Its > > > never done it before (well it has in NT but not in Linux). All I was > > > doing was reading mail remotely over a dialup line using xemacs in a > > > kterm in KDE 1.1.1 (from snowcrash). It stopped after a while (about 4 > > > minutes) and has been fine since. This never happened before in RedHat > > > or with Hamm. Is this a KDE thing perhaps ?. I am running on an AST M > > > series Laptop which has 48Mb ram and a 2GB Linux partition with about > > > 1300MB free and a 92MB swap file. > > > > > > Pat > > Run a program such as "Top" that monitors your processes. Find the pid > that is sucking the memory and then kill it. Look at "man top" > htht, > kent > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > >
