Interesting. I keep servers running this same kernel, running for a year at a time in some cases, so usually it isn't a problem. Has to be something I was doing on this home machine, maybe the dosemus. Hmm. Unfortunately, I rebooted, before I saw Kenny's message about top. Luke On Sat, 26 Feb 2005, Scott Howell wrote: > I only once had a problem with a box that was up for a long period of > time. I was not in a position to really check into the problem as the > box had one one message on the screen and that was it was out of memory. > I could only contribute this to having an iso image mounted for several > weeks. Now why this was a problem I don't know, but I couldn't do > anything to unmount or run any other programs so I was forced to reboot. > It was rather interesting however and I've never left an iso imagine of > any size mounted for that long. > > Scott > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >