On Wed, 2008-04-30 at 10:16 -0500, Paul Johnson wrote: > I have had this "system dies" symptom on several systems and traced > the problem back to an insufficiently big SWAP file, or the SWAP was > turned off entirely. > > On a machine that has this problem, you run "top" and the swap line > will show 0 available. > > I'm not denying other possible problems, but this one definitely did > cause system hangs here. It is not unique to firefox, of course, but > firefox is one program that can trigger it because so many people > write crappy javascript and other ajax web programs that system > resources are strained. If you leave firefox unattended whil it is > hooked on to some web page that is running crap on your system, well, > I guess you get what you deserve. > Ok, in my case, I have 4 Gb swap and 2 Gb ram... -- Renich Bon Ciric http://www.woralelandia.com/ # Facebook http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=674792460 # introbella (band) http://www.introbella.com/ # Smolt uuid (pub_3e18efc2-dee4-459f-8d40-ddf489be817d) http://www.smolts.org/client/show/?uuid=pub_3e18efc2-dee4-459f-8d40-ddf489be817d
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