On Mon, 2005-01-24 at 18:01 -0500, 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. This is actually an already reported bug (although the reported one was concerned with what openoffice would do to a system when it forced swap): https://bugzilla.redhat.com/beta/show_bug.cgi?id=142809
