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 1DwdmP-0001Qq-Ui for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 24 Jul 2005 10:32:22 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j6OASwYC032233; Sun, 24 Jul 2005 10:28:58 GMT Received: from smtp018.mail.yahoo.com (smtp018.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.174.115]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j6OAKZph014288 for ; Sun, 24 Jul 2005 10:20:36 GMT Received: (qmail 33772 invoked from network); 24 Jul 2005 10:21:23 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.50.105?) (richard?j?fish@212.180.33.26 with plain) by smtp018.mail.yahoo.com with SMTP; 24 Jul 2005 10:21:23 -0000 Message-ID: <42E36C53.1050304@asmallpond.org> Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2005 12:24:19 +0200 From: Richard Fish User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050723) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] aterm do crash displaying long files, konsole don't: swappiness problem? References: <20050724085206.GA22103@tosh.dyndns.biz> <20050724120942.0db9adfe.hilse@web.de> In-Reply-To: <20050724120942.0db9adfe.hilse@web.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 55cdade3-be80-4693-9b31-8f5049adef6b X-Archives-Hash: 93992965cc14dcdec7f13a3000dfcf51 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