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 1DwdWd-0001mB-Iy for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 24 Jul 2005 10:16:03 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j6OAEOEi015573; Sun, 24 Jul 2005 10:14:24 GMT Received: from s2.stud.uni-goettingen.de (s2.stud.uni-goettingen.de [134.76.60.22]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j6OAApir013672 for ; Sun, 24 Jul 2005 10:10:51 GMT Received: from vpn-3002.gwdg.de ([134.76.3.2] helo=butch.nik13.home) by s2.stud.uni-goettingen.de with asmtp (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.22) id 1DwdSN-0005CS-1v for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Sun, 24 Jul 2005 12:11:39 +0200 Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2005 12:09:42 +0200 From: Hans-Werner Hilse To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] aterm do crash displaying long files, konsole don't: swappiness problem? Message-Id: <20050724120942.0db9adfe.hilse@web.de> In-Reply-To: <20050724085206.GA22103@tosh.dyndns.biz> References: <20050724085206.GA22103@tosh.dyndns.biz> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.0.0beta5 (GTK+ 2.6.8; i386-pc-dragonfly1) X-Face: ?%{N&v`I$/2&hU/l[fz~s5ETugSOp`~y,.e%_7S0cRnkJ!hD&DbkIR;;>t`-uvSs1,][|;;Z0|SS=_yW(db!q|_s/q"G^.qrVrk4;&.1fg8lZ@Kn=&`ePL.e.N{ZIS%ZN%+O4(xa9=j[HXpQdlGrr'%xZ]vQp1doD"u"W%qM$w$ySo@t,&$A1]\unoo@d"X{)Wa2MaW-axG|lRiC;/gVmgI 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-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 6f86fb68-4f9a-4b93-92b9-9cfb3845feb0 X-Archives-Hash: b8aa171a50964731c64fd240417e011a 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 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list