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Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: |
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>Hi, |
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>On Sun, 24 Jul 2005 10:52:06 +0200 |
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>Fabrizio Prosperi <fprosper@×××××××××.it> wrote: |
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>>Doing a long emerge -up world aterm kept crashing and I thought it was |
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>>an emerge problem, but then I focused on a particular emerge |
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>>(mozilla-firefox) and I realised it was it. |
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>>Just doing cat /var/log/portage/<that-log>.log |
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>>is making aterm crash again, but not konsole. |
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>>I guess I something with swappiness settings, but how to fix it? |
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>Hm, don't know about aterm and its memory management, but that's for |
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>sure: _swappiness_ should have absolutely nothing to do with this. The |
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>swap management isn't up to userspace applications, that's kernel's |
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>matter. Well, there might be some small probability left that your swap |
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>management is somewhat hosed due to bugs in the kernel but that is very |
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>unlikely and wouldn't explain why these conditions only occur with |
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>aterm and only affect aterm. |
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>-hwh |
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This may be a shot in the dark, since I don't use aterm, but can you |
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check /var/log/messages and see if maybe the kernel is killing aterm due |
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to excessive memory usage? The search string is "oom" for "out-of-memory". |
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-Richard |
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