[NTLUG:Discuss] system crash

[Rick Cook]

---------- on Sun, 27 Feb 2000 11:58:52 -0600 , Peter Koren said ->
>> 
>> I just had a system crash and it is not the first time.
>> 
>> I'm running Suse 6.3 and I was running netscape and StarOffice when the
>> disk drive suddenly started furious activity that did not stop. I could
>> not get another shell to work and could not get to the console. I had to
>> shut off the power.
>> 
>> Any Ideas?
>> 

StarOffice seems to be a rather severe memory hog. How much RAM do you
have and what else was running (other than Netscape and X). The symptom
you are describing sounds like the system was attempting to swap and
was not being very successful about it. 

Oh yes, and how big is your swap partition?


Rick Cook
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