swapspace

[Gene Heskett]

On Saturday 18 October 2014 12:26:04 Colin Law did opine
And Gene did reply:
> On 18 October 2014 16:54, Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:
> > ...
> > OTOH, okular took me down yesterday, while trying to read thru a 42
> > megabyte, 650 page pdf, the USB2.0 stds document.  No clue if it was
> > into swap at the time & no way to acess an htop as it was bash &
> > everything it started that all died in one swell foop.
> 
> You can usually tell if swap is being used intensively, causing the
> machine to clog up, as the disc will be thrashing away continuously.
> 
> Colin

That did not appear to be happening.  gkrellm is watching that, and the 
cpu display was not particularly busy.

I got the impression that okular was fighting with gs, trying to make it 
read more file and render it, and failing.

Ghostscript is a completely different beast from the series of 5.x.x that 
I compiled on my old Amiga A2000-040 20 years ago, and I have no clue if 
its memory demands were being ignored or what.  Looking at pre-crash 
/var/log/messages, there didn't seem to be any alarm bells prior to the 
takedown.

It may also have something to with me trying to get nut properly 
configured.  Man pages seem to be missing. uspd and upsmon are running, 
the the web pages contents while titled, are blank, so its not getting out 
someplace yet.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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