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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.ececs.uc.edu!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!gusw.dialup.fu-berlin.DE!not-for-mail From: Gunther Schadow <gunther@gusw.dialup.fu-berlin.de> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD/XFree86 on Notebook Date: Mon, 02 Dec 1996 16:39:11 +0100 Organization: Freie Universitaet Berlin Lines: 36 Message-ID: <32A2F81F.41C67EA6@gusw.dialup.fu-berlin.de> References: <329C5544.41C67EA6@gusw.dialup.fu-berlin.de> <57hrkl$j6@helena.mt.net> <32A16E91.41C67EA6@gusw.dialup.fu-berlin.de> <57ss7b$h3q@uriah.heep.sax.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: gusw.dialup.fu-berlin.de (160.45.216.109) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Access: 16 17 19 267 X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE i386) To: Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> J Wunsch wrote: > Gunther Schadow <gunther@gusw.dialup.fu-berlin.de> wrote: > > > I just set up a configuration for an "Artist" (OEM?) notebook with TFT > > 800x600, Chips & Tech. 65548 1MB SVGA, i586/100 32MB. It looks just > > fine, but I have a very strange problem: When the system load becomes > > moderate to high, and display action is moderate, someone suddenly kills > > the server (SIGKILL) and then it hangs locking up the terminal. I guess > > its the server process itself that raises the KILL signal, and I hope to > > find the problem with the debugger rather quickly. > > The server is never supposed to SIGKILL itself. In a fatal condition, > it does an abort() (signal 6). > > Your syslog should tell you more, i assume your Xserver was growing > too much, so you finally ran out of swap space, and the swap_pager was > killing it in an attempt to save the system's sanity... Yes, that's what it did, and I realized it only a couple of hours later :-). I just forgot to enter a line for wd0b none sw 0 0 into /etc/fstab. 32MB DRAM is so much of reserve, that no emacs and stuff could bring the swapper to become active. Tell me "think before you post", if you want :-). cheers -Gunther PS: Where should I report the details of my now 100% working Notebook installation? -- Gunther Schadow-----------Windsteiner Weg 54a, Berlin 14165, FR. Germany Dept. of Anaesthesia, Benjamin Franklin Univerity Hospital, Berlin. gusw@fub46.zedat.fu-berlin.de http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~gusw ----------------------------------#include <usual/disclaimer>-----------