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Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 15:28:55 +0100 (CET)
From: Richard Torkar <ds98rito@thn.htu.se>
To: John R Lenton <john@grulic.org.ar>
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Subject: Re: oopsen in 2.4.0-pre9
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John R Lenton wrote:

> Several oops come up when using a lot of memory (using
> imagemagick on PIA00001.tif from photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/tiff,
> on a 64MB machine, for example)
> 
> The weird thing is the oops happen *after* I've finished with
> imagemagick (or the gimp, or ...). In this particular situation
> netscape suddenly died, together with wmtime, and then the whole
> of X hung. I entered via the network, to find that xfs had died
> (explaining X's hanging), and as soon as I restarted X the whole
> box was gone. It still responded to pings, but even the active
> ssh session was dead and I couldn't get a new one.

I can only confirm your problem, but I use 128MB RAM.

When using "display PIA00001.tif" my computer starts swapping furiously
and then locks *hard*. Not even sysrq works and unfortunately in my case
no oops in messages...


Hmmmm, serious? Dunno...


/Richard
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