On Mon, 12 Jul 1999, Oren Shomron wrote:
A few details.
What machine is that ? How much memory ? How large is the swap ?
Do you run as root ? Do you observe this behaviour under other
applications ?
Any special thing we should know about ? What kernel ?
--Ariel
> I'm having some trouble with Linux. Whenever some application starts
> taking up way too much memory (netscape with its leaks) and I run out,
> my system starts hard-drive thrashing like crazy and becomes totally
> unresponsive.
> I can't do anything but ALT+SYSREQ my way to a reboot.
> Is there any way to make linux handle this better? Any Kernel patches
> perhaps?
>
> Thanks,
> - Oren
>
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