Potato & Solaris

1999-07-12 Thread Alex Rier
Hi, I need Solaris 2.6 x86 and Debian Potato on CD. Any help will be deeply appreciated! Alex Rier| System Administrator | Tel: +972-52-442549 Breakthrough Ltd.| FAX: +972-3-6356434 http://www.breakt.co.il | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Mountd and RPC errors

1999-07-12 Thread Moti Levy
Hi All , something i cant resolve on my own so i figured one of you linux wizards might have a clue the hosts i am talking about are all working 1.2.13 slackware machines. the kernel is old because of some development apps that no one has the bas to migrate. any way one machine suddenly will

Re: Thrashing and Crashing

1999-07-12 Thread Ariel Biener
On Mon, 12 Jul 1999, Oren Shomron wrote: Sounds to me like an all too known XFree bug. When this happens, can you run `top' in a xterm (make sure you still have one free). I'll bet that X will be running at ~95% cpu and more. In any case, I advise on enlarging your swap to at least 64MB. (bu

Re: Thrashing and Crashing

1999-07-12 Thread Omer
Small comment: The x2 rule doesn't actually mean anything now, as far as I know this rule-of-thumb comes from unices which will not use RAM unless they have swap to shadow it with. Of course, in this case, with 32MB of RAM he could use 128MB of swap. "Eugene L. Berman" wrote: > > Oren Shomron w

Problems installing LILO

1999-07-12 Thread Boris Dinkevich
Hello, I am now trying to install RedHat 6 [from cheap*bytes] and when reaching the "Installing bootloader" [after the rpms were installed with no problems] RedHat stops and tells me that it couldn't install the bootloader [no specific error message] and asks if I want to continue with th

Re: Thrashing and Crashing

1999-07-12 Thread Yaron Zabary
On Mon, 12 Jul 1999, Omer wrote: > Small comment: > The x2 rule doesn't actually mean anything now, > as far as I know this rule-of-thumb comes from > unices which will not use RAM unless they have > swap to shadow it with. That is correct. The "swap should be twice the RAM" rule holds true fo

Re: Thrashing and Crashing

1999-07-12 Thread Oren Shomron
Liran Zvibel wrote: > Quoting Oren Shomron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > 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 > > unrespon