From: zevans@nyx.cs.du.edu (Zack Evans) Subject: Re: PROBLEM: X386 freezing up station Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1993 00:24:25 GMT
In article <platz_b3.1@hugo.rz.fh-ulm.de> platz_b3@hugo.rz.fh-ulm.de (RZ Diplomantenarbeitsplatz) writes:
>Hi,
>I got a problem when running X386. Sometimes the X-Server freezes
>the complete station. All X-Clients seem to stop ( clock doesn't
>update, xload doesn#t update ). I haven't tried to login into my
>station from remote, but i'm quite sure that the machine is hanging.
Well, try it to make sure anyway.... does CAPS LOCK still work? (The ultimate
diagnostic, that one :) )
>The problem is that this doesn't happen all the time. Sometimes
>I can open lots of shell-windows and anything will work fine, but
>othertimes the statiob hangs after opening just two windows.
I wonder if this might be the memory fragmentation that was mentioned somewhere
else recently... do you only ever have problems when the machine has been on
for a while? Also, if you are using SLS PL12, it might the memory leak in that
kernel that is hitting you.
>I think my configuratuion in Xconfig is ok.
If it wasn't it would probably not run at all...
>I'm running linux 0.99p12 and XFree 2.0.
^^^^^^^^^^
You can't be - do you mean 1.3?
>Question is: Is the defect described above a known failure
> (I hanve't found anything about it in README files).
Haven't seen it in the groups or on the lists before...
>I've got a second problem:
> The size of my swap partiotion is about 22 MByte (shown by fdisk).
> I did a mkswap with the given size. When I say swapon /dev/xxxx
> I get 16xxx KByte swap partition activated. Why is there some swap
> space left unused ?
This bit's easy - Linux will only support up to 16MB on any one swap partition
or file. Divide your swap partition into two and run mkswap and swapon on them
individually, and you should be OK.
Zack