From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 56A0D1382C5 for ; Fri, 5 Feb 2021 18:25:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 00FE2E0943; Fri, 5 Feb 2021 18:24:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pmta11.teksavvy.com (pmta11.teksavvy.com [76.10.157.34]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 701CFE08CE for ; Fri, 5 Feb 2021 18:24:57 +0000 (UTC) IronPort-SDR: U93JV2htTyW7p0jNRZoLTrEXb2p6qpXdKujxGQuW6bDYwXiW0LP67ioRQSTUX7uybLr7wNbfpS y7KY+ZgEJoIA== X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: =?us-ascii?q?A2HMAwAMjR1g/1Z9oWxiHQEBAQEJARI?= =?us-ascii?q?BBQUBQAeBNwUBCwGDdmuIdYRQhkEBgXlXAYM7mFALAQEBAQEBAQEBHBkBAgQ?= =?us-ascii?q?BAYRFBAICggImNwYOAgMBAQsBAQEFAQEBAQEGBAIChluGUQY6HDMLNBIQRxm?= =?us-ascii?q?GLbBXgTSFWYUQgTgBjUJBP4ECP4QqPoULhSwEg2k6gWNAkDONIptrCoJ6gRk?= =?us-ascii?q?GmwaDHJAhj2W2RIF5gXx9CIMkUBkNV5wyJjA3AgYKAQEDCVcBi0ABAQ?= X-IPAS-Result: =?us-ascii?q?A2HMAwAMjR1g/1Z9oWxiHQEBAQEJARIBBQUBQAeBNwUBC?= =?us-ascii?q?wGDdmuIdYRQhkEBgXlXAYM7mFALAQEBAQEBAQEBHBkBAgQBAYRFBAICggImN?= =?us-ascii?q?wYOAgMBAQsBAQEFAQEBAQEGBAIChluGUQY6HDMLNBIQRxmGLbBXgTSFWYUQg?= =?us-ascii?q?TgBjUJBP4ECP4QqPoULhSwEg2k6gWNAkDONIptrCoJ6gRkGmwaDHJAhj2W2R?= =?us-ascii?q?IF5gXx9CIMkUBkNV5wyJjA3AgYKAQEDCVcBi0ABAQ?= X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.81,155,1610427600"; d="scan'208";a="156665095" Received: from 108-161-125-86.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO waltdnes.org) ([108.161.125.86]) by smtp11.teksavvy.com with SMTP; 05 Feb 2021 13:24:40 -0500 Received: by waltdnes.org (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Fri, 05 Feb 2021 13:24:40 -0500 From: "Walter Dnes" Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2021 13:24:40 -0500 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] HOWTO: Freezing/unfreezing (groups of) processes Message-ID: References: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Archives-Salt: 4d9d596e-ef5a-4a83-8607-818c8edad856 X-Archives-Hash: ac97e9c952ecdec6a25ffd04588f5487 On Fri, Feb 05, 2021 at 02:00:05PM -0500, Walter Dnes wrote > > In the course of experimentation, I've made versions that killed > critical processes, requiring a reboot. {ALT}{SYSRQ} to the rescue . > I'll stick with stuff that works. I'll have to take that back. It happened again, and I was not fiddling with pstop/pcont. The common element seems to be that I was compiling Pale Moon 29.0 each time it crashed. A machine with 8 gigs of ram, and 598 of 905 gigs free diskspace should not have resource issues. -- Walter Dnes I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications