Re: [cobalt-users] swap problem

[Mat Kovach <mkovach@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Feb 28, 2000 at 08:24:48PM -0500, Debbie Doerrlamm wrote:
: I'll relate best as I understand it.. maybe Charlie can give a more in
: depth description..
: 
: Sometime this AM (2/28) the box was trying to write to the swap file and
: hung.. I understand it was not a large file.. only 48 k, but hung none the
: less..

I'm not sure what you mean by swap file here?  Linux (and Cobalt) use swap
partitions for virtual memory, paging memory in and out of swap when needed.
I can remeber what the page size it, but I seriously doubt that somebody
can look and see how much data is being written to the swap partition.  ARe
they talking about a different file?
 
: their router problem was resolved at 11 AM or so this morning so it was no
: longer a concern to my problems.. but I had not idea the router problem was
: resolved until I called and they investigated.. found the box hung. I
: rebooted the box thru the GUI and it hung.. Joey did something physically
: there at the box and it finally rebooted properly..

It would be interesting to know exactly what it was hanging on.
 
Can really say much more unless we know exactly why it was hanging.

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Mat Kovach                                      mkovach@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cleveland Linux User Group                       http://cleveland.lug.net