Re: [Sheflug] Re: 2.4.4

[Alex Hudson <nospam [at] alexhudson.com>]

On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 10:46:41PM +0100, Will Newton wrote:
> > I'll try it and see. It's been probably about two (usage) hours since my
> > last Linux crash, so here's hoping.
> 
> X crashes are one thing, but I haven't had a single oops from the 2.4
> series. Admittedly I haven't tried most of the -pre/-ac versions.
> 
> Are you running anything in particular that might cause the crash?

It's not a crash as in 'halts the machine', it's the OOM killer running
rampant. It's a known bug. Given I'm running on a desktop, killing X is
basically a crash of the machine, because every single process I'm running
gets killed or commits suicide.

I'll update my kernel at some point, probably 2.4.5 I think. I know there is
supposedly a fix for it, so hopefully that'll do the trick.

Cheers,

Alex.
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