It could be a kernel problem, but it sounds more like a memory problem to me.
I'm assuming this install is using some sort of bleeding edge 2.4 series
kernel, right? I've had general flakiness issues with early 2.4 kernels
but never anything /this/ bad.
Take a look at this script: http://people.redhat.com/dledford/memtest.html
It's reasonably evil, (in a good way) and should help you test your memory.
It's helped me weed out defective simms and dimms in the past.
On Sun, Apr 21, 2002 at 09:01:37PM -0400, Russell Hires wrote:
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> Advice: Hmmm...I noticed that it was taking forever to open the pic, so I
> just quit Konqueror. A pic that big shouldn't kill your machine, though.
> Sounds like a kernel problem? Since you're dealing with a beta, I'd let
> RedHat know...
>
> Russell
>
> On Sunday 21 April 2002 16:25 pm, you wrote:
> > be careful opening that large earth image. I tried to open it in the
> > gimp and next thing my PC was rebooting!
> > I have 256MB of ram and a gig of sswap space.
> > Now I know the image was larger than my ram but I thought it might crash
> > the gimp, maybe even kill X but to just suddenly reboot is a bad thing.
> >
> > I using RH7.3 beta2 any advise? (besides dont open such big images?)
> >
> > Seth
> >
> > On Sun, 2002-04-21 at 13:42, Seth Hollen wrote:
> > > ftp://sdcd.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/EARTHVIZ/
> > >
> > > the two pics are
> > > land_shallow_topo_east.tif
> > > land_shallow_topo_west.tif
> > >
> > > I thought they were neat.
> > > --
> > > Take care,
> > >
> > > Seth
> > > seth@hollen.org
> > > 727-919-1598
>
> - --
> Linux -- the OS for the Renaissance Man
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