On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 12:03:12PM -0800, [email protected] wrote: > on Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 07:20:53AM -0800, Greg Strockbine ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > My system totally froze up, apparently to memory exhaustion? Can this > > be? > > Similarly, 256 MB, recently upgraded from 96 MB. First thing I did was > open a bunch of monsters and, sure enough, killed the box. Rebooted > with magic sys rq. >
Won't ALT-SysRq-K kill all of the programs on the X terminal, thereby probably killing the process using the most memory and keeping you from having to reboot)? The Sysrq docs imply that it will, but I never found out about Magic SysRq until after the Mach64 xserver advanced past the stage where it locks up all of the time, so I haven't been able to test it. -- Harry Henry Gebel, ICQ# 76308382 West Dover Hundred, Delaware
