tir, 25.01.2005 kl. 09.13 skrev Sitsofe Wheeler: > 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 > yup. OO went overboard for me yesterday. It finally (after using up all my ram (381 MB) and 768 MB's of swap, took about 10-15 minutes...) got killed by the OOM-killer (which somehow *STARTED* with killing off evolution, firefox, gaim, azureus ETC, not the real culprit - OpenOffice). All i did was right-click a mispelled word! Well, at least it got me to comment out about 95% of the dictionary list (which i have had on my "todo" list for a long time now). But why where all the languages listed twice? Kyrre
