-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Havoc Pennington wrote: > Hi, > > On my IBM X31 laptop, the system entirely locks up when there's a lot of > disk access, some common situations are: > - when getting heavily into swap due to a runaway process > - when running rpm/yum > > It's not *technically* locked up (i.e. if you wait long enough it will > come back) but in practice you have to reboot if a process has a memory > leak, and you can't do any work while running yum. It is amazing what we are completely content putting up with until someone mentions they suffer from the same plight. I really like the idea of being able to launch "System Monitor" aka gnome-system-monitor (via hotkey) to graphically kill any runaway processes (or even just advise me as to which one is the culprit so i can make an informed decision). I don't know how to "force reserve" the resources to make it functional in such a situation but it would save tons of unfinished work (multitasking) that is being lost because of 1 wayward app. - -- Michael Favia michael.favia@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Insites Incorporated http://michael.insitesinc.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFB9Yh2BVsNYjF2rDYRAvfTAJ4n697fFdmQHgaP4eiIuqL+3F6pnACggVFP T2B1GE+ma+ZKtjKz89tPBcs= =UDfk -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
