fc4 crashes on heavy overload

James Wilkinson fedora at westexe.demon.co.uk
Fri Apr 21 12:17:30 UTC 2006


Vaishak Belle wrote:
> Hello all,
> I seem to have a little problem with my fc4 for sometime now.  The
> system runs good for sometime but when under heavy load ( couple of
> browser windows in one desktop, xmms in another etc.), it crashes.
> Mouse stops responding, wireless fails and refuses to reactivate etc.
> Its renderred completely useless! I initially presumsed it was the
> Gnome crashing but i have been using kde for sometime and the problem
> persists.

Have you installed any kernel modules from non-Fedora sources (e.g.
nVidia, ndiswrapper)?

Are you up-to-date with kernels?

James.

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