On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 12:27:39 +0200, Jukka Marin wrote:

> Earlier, I saw a freeze like this and after some 2 minutes the system
> came back alive (and froze completely with the gimp "trick").
> 
> I have 1 GB of RAM and 16 GB of swap, running a 2.0RC5 kernel on an
                         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> AMD Athlon XP 2600+.

I wonder if this huge amount of swap causes your problems.
VM experts?

Also, do you run mfs /tmp?  MFS has known issues, including deadlocks.

SY, Uwe
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