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

[Richard Fish <bigfish@asmallpond.org>]

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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