Re: [Gpe] Re: [iPAQ] return

On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 10:57:41AM +0000, David Woodhouse wrote:
> > synopsis: one program is killed or segfaults (confirmed with rxvt,
> > but others seem to do this as well) and it takes everything else with
> > it, one by one all programs die, then the window manager, everything.
> > obviously, at that point you've had it and only a reset will work.
>
> > anyone seen that before?
>
> That will probably be the OOM-killer slaughtering your userspace.

yepp, sounds reasonable. I think I've only noticed this when I've
abused /var for temp file storage.

anyway, no matter what, there should be a "comeback" for the machine.
maybe we need a watchdog for X11 ?

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