Re: Slow death?

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Sat, Feb 09, 2002 at 11:22:10AM -0500, Andrew Cagney wrote:
> This is one of those lame ``my machine crashes'', e-mails :-(
> 
> Ignoring:
> 
> http://www.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=14496
> http://www.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=15547
> 
> http://www.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=15299 (fixed)
> 
> I'm still having fun keeping my G4 Ti up.
> 
> The load isn't that typical, it constantly builds and tests FSF 
> toolchains (compiler, linker, assembler, debugger) and dejagnu/expect. 
> Oh, and mozilla ...
> 
> I think the symptoms suggest some resource running out.  Typically I'm 
> not around when it hangs (did I say constantly? :-).  But on the very 
> few occasions when I have it appears to slowly (well over 30 seconds) 
> die - one window hangs, next window hangs, mouse becomes sluggish ...

Maybe you're running out of swap ? Can you make something to record swap
usage (mrtg ? :) and see how it goes before the crash ?

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
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