Re: [gentoo-user] aterm do crash displaying long files, konsole don't: swappiness problem?

[Fabrizio Prosperi <fprosper@interfree.it>]

Thank you guys for the replies, I don't have access to the machine right
now but I'll check /var/log/messages for oom messages and get back to
you ASAP.

Fabrizio

On Sun, Jul 24, 2005 at 12:24:19PM +0200, Richard Fish wrote:
> Hans-Werner Hilse wrote:
> 
> >Hi,
> >
> >On Sun, 24 Jul 2005 10:52:06 +0200
> >Fabrizio Prosperi <fprosper@interfree.it> wrote:
> >
> > 
> >
> >>Doing a long emerge -up world aterm kept crashing and I thought it was
> >>an emerge problem, but then I focused on a particular emerge
> >>(mozilla-firefox) and I realised it was it. 
> >>
> >>Just doing cat /var/log/portage/<that-log>.log
> >>is making aterm crash again, but not konsole.
> >>
> >>I guess I something with swappiness settings, but how to fix it? 
> >>   
> >>
> >
> >Hm, don't know about aterm and its memory management, but that's for
> >sure: _swappiness_ should have absolutely nothing to do with this. The
> >swap management isn't up to userspace applications, that's kernel's
> >matter. Well, there might be some small probability left that your swap
> >management is somewhat hosed due to bugs in the kernel but that is very
> >unlikely and wouldn't explain why these conditions only occur with
> >aterm and only affect aterm.
> >
> >-hwh
> > 
> >
> 
> This may be a shot in the dark, since I don't use aterm, but can you 
> check /var/log/messages and see if maybe the kernel is killing aterm due 
> to excessive memory usage?  The search string is "oom" for "out-of-memory".
> 
> -Richard
> 
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