Swap Space Not Being Used?

Dave Jones davej at redhat.com
Fri Sep 22 00:38:24 UTC 2006


On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 05:33:40PM -0400, RICHARD wrote:
 > I'm using FC4 on a Dell Inspiron 2200 (for over 1 year). OOo has started
 > crashing when working with inserting large picture files (although I've
 > worked with them in the past without problem).
 
You may be hitting a kernel bug where the out-of-memory killer triggers too soon.
(dmesg will tell you if so).  I'm not sure if FC4 ever got fixed, but as it's
now in the hands of fedora-legacy, there won't be updates to more recent upstream
kernels.

	Dave




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