On Thu, 22 Dec 2005, Paul M Foster wrote:
> Ken Elliott wrote:
> >>> My confuser crashes several times a day, always has, most any image
> >
> > viewer will do in within 2 or 3 minutes. (it's because I am running dozens
> > of applications,
> >
> > I suspect you have defective RAM, or another issue. My Win2K box has not
> > crashed once all year long. Ditto with my Linux boxes. My XP box did, but
> > that is clearly due to the wireless drivers.
> >
> > I'd look into it. This should not happen, no matter how many apps you run.
>
> While I agree, it sounds like there's a hardware issue, it *is* possible
> to crash a Linux machine due to load. From what I understand, a Linux
> kernel that runs out of memory (and swap) melts down in a most
> unpleasant way. This may have improved over time, but I believe there
> are still issues.
I heard it starts killing processes randomly (presumably weighted by RAM
use?) to free up memory. I've never run into that myself, so I can't speak
from personal experience.
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