Re: Virtual memory devours my disk

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From: Andrew Loewenstern
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 19:16

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In article <274@moene.UUCP> toon@moene.uucp (Toon Moene) writes:
>  Well, actually, running 'shutdown -r now' from a suitably privileged  
>  account (root :-) will fix it; no need to pull the cord :-}
>  Or you could try to kill the window server (which most likely is the  
>  culprit - having grabbed the 'farthest' page in the swapfile).

If the machine is really hosed you won't be able to do anything short of  
pulling the cord.  I've only seen this happen *once*...  Usually you get the  
friendly panic prompt that dumps you into the ROM monitor when you type  
'cont'...  :-)

andrew
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andrew@cubetech.com
Andrew Loewenstern            |  "listen: there's a hell of a good universe
Cube Technologies, Inc.       |   next door; let's go." --- e.e. cummings

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Subject: Re: Virtual memory devours my disk
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