On Tue, 13 Jul 1999, Yaron Zabary wrote:
> I would guess that your netscape is indeed running out of swap
not necessarily. if it did, it'll most likely core dump in some manner (or
the first application that tries to allocate memory and tries to access
the not-really-allocated memory via the returned NULL pointer.
the problem of thrashing in this manner has one solution (as far as i
know): leave the keyboard and mouse and wait for 1-3 minutes. eventually
your system will stop swapping (unless you have some background process
that's keeping the system the busy constantly - in that case you're
toast). when it finally calms down, try to close the annoying process
without letting the mouse cross over any other window (otherwise, it wakes
those apps up, and swapping begins again).
options for the longer term: don't use netscape version 4+ on a system
with 32MB - use netscape v3.X instead.
buy more RAM.
etc, etc, etc.
as far as i know, linux does not alow you to limit the ammount of swapping
a process causes. creating such a limit could solve these problems (with
the price of having applications crashing all over around you). maybe
you'd like to add such a feature into the kernel? :)
guy
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