On Thursday 07 April 2011 21:12:27 Richard wrote: > On Thu, Apr 07, 2011 at 03:45:19PM +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: > > Ten years ago I was told that one of the strengths of Linux was that if > > an application went down it didn't take other processes with it. Sadly > > this no longer seems to be true. > > > > Today I had used GIMP to make a scan of 200MB. When I tried to save it > > it started, but then went into Disk Sleep. XSane and, believe it or > > not, Libre Office Calc became zombies, responding to nothing that I > > could find in System Monitor. Eventually, remember previous episodes, I > > asked for a system restart. The shutdown began, then hung, leaving me > > with no option but to power down. > > remember to check /var/log/messages and watch dmesg when you hit strange > problems like that, it is certainly unexpected that a 200 MB scan would > nuke your system. It might be a flaky USB drive rthat got into way or > something like that. > I knew that there is a known limit for size, but didn't expect it to be anywhere near that low. I did the same scan again later, with the same result. After the next reboot I did it again with 200dpi which produced a meagre 31KB scan. That saved without a problem. There's not much chance of monitoring anything while it is actually happening unless I can do it from the command line in a second terminal - which I haven't tried, but will do next time I see it. All KDE utilities seem to be brought to the knees when this happens. Anne -- New to KDE Software? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org
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