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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD/XFree86 on Notebook Date: 1 Dec 1996 21:10:03 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 23 Message-ID: <57ss7b$h3q@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <329C5544.41C67EA6@gusw.dialup.fu-berlin.de> <57hrkl$j6@helena.mt.net> <32A16E91.41C67EA6@gusw.dialup.fu-berlin.de> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Gunther Schadow <gunther@gusw.dialup.fu-berlin.de> wrote: > I just set up a configuration for an "Artist" (OEM?) notebook with TFT > 800x600, Chips & Tech. 65548 1MB SVGA, i586/100 32MB. It looks just > fine, but I have a very strange problem: When the system load becomes > moderate to high, and display action is moderate, someone suddenly kills > the server (SIGKILL) and then it hangs locking up the terminal. I guess > its the server process itself that raises the KILL signal, and I hope to > find the problem with the debugger rather quickly. The server is never supposed to SIGKILL itself. In a fatal condition, it does an abort() (signal 6). Your syslog should tell you more, i assume your Xserver was growing too much, so you finally ran out of swap space, and the swap_pager was killing it in an attempt to save the system's sanity... -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)