Re: FVWM: System Lockup

From: Marc D. Williams <wilmarc_at_gte.net>
Date: Mon Apr 6 18:19:04 1998

> My Linux system is running a reasonalby recent version of FVWM based on
> a reasonably recent version of X-Window. There is the following strange
> behaviour.
>
> If I shut down an application and then shut down FVWM before the
> application actually exits then the whole system freezes. It happens
> frequently with Netscape but yesterday it happened when a scanner
> operation was still in the process of exiting. The distinguishing
> characteristic seems to be an application that takes its own sweet time
> about shutting down. My current workaround is to wait (impatiently)
> until all disk activity ceases.
>
> I need to exit FVWM/X Window frequently because my system has only 16MB
> of real memory and I do run out on occasion.
>
How's your swap space? You might want to have from 16-32MB of swap
maybe which helps out quite a bit.
I forgot what the general rule of thumb for swap space was.
Something like creating a swap space twice as big as the amount of
ram you have when you don't have much. If you have the disk space
try 32MB.

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