From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DwenY-0007ik-8Z for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 24 Jul 2005 11:37:36 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j6OBZscV012848; Sun, 24 Jul 2005 11:35:54 GMT Received: from vsmtp2alice.tin.it (vsmtp2alice.tin.it [212.216.176.142]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j6OBWGt4014446 for ; Sun, 24 Jul 2005 11:32:16 GMT Received: from aliceposta.it (80.182.108.8) by vsmtp2alice.tin.it (7.2.060.1) id 42DC0156000844E3 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Sun, 24 Jul 2005 13:33:04 +0200 Received: by aliceposta.it (nbSMTP-0.99) for uid 1000 fprosper@aliceposta.it; Sun, 24 Jul 2005 13:33:05 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2005 13:33:04 +0200 From: Fabrizio Prosperi To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] aterm do crash displaying long files, konsole don't: swappiness problem? Message-ID: <20050724113304.GA11155@tosh.dyndns.biz> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <20050724085206.GA22103@tosh.dyndns.biz> <20050724120942.0db9adfe.hilse@web.de> <42E36C53.1050304@asmallpond.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <42E36C53.1050304@asmallpond.org> X-Operating-System: Linux 2.6.11-gentoo-r6 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i X-Archives-Salt: 5a1e9725-24bc-488b-877a-24e49cdaba1e X-Archives-Hash: 0ade4c936e29da8ed6829309ec3da996 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 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/.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 > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list