On Mon, 12 Jul 1999, Oren Shomron wrote:
> 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?
Could you, by any chance, have a window with the top command running in
it and report back what happens in the Mem and Swap lines at the time of
the incident ?
>
> Thanks,
> - Oren
>
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