Re: [suse-security] Suse 7.3 Crash

[dproc@xxxxxxx]

On Thu, 10 Apr 2003, Vakvarju wrote:


> > I have a Pentium 4 2.4Ghz with 1G of RAM and instaled the SuSe 7.3
> > Professional distribution.
> > 
> > The installed system is very unstable and once and a while it just
> > reboots without a warning.

> > The behaviour remains the same if i boot in failsafe mode.

> As some of the ppl wrote before me it is adviceable to install a more
> recent version of SuSE on such a new hardware. Also the growing memory
> is normal, the buffered and cached part of the memory use is growing in
> the time as you are using the system, it is a normal linux behaviour to

I have SuSE Linux 7.3 on an Athlon XP 2100 (very different from a P4 I
think, but also new ...) but only 512 MB memory.

$ uptime
 12:20pm  up 4 days, 18:05,  5 users,  load average: 1.02

Yes I crashed it (or at least I crashed X) four days ago, with
darned Netscape 7 I think.  I hit the case reset button afair.

I have a pre-order in for 8.2

$ free
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:        514972     509428       5544          0      13760     147532
-/+ buffers/cache:     348136     166836
Swap:       152576        876     151700

'free' is an easier way to check memory usage than 'top' on SuSE Linux.
The second line of numbers is the important one for performance.  I
find the 'Mem used' number on the first line grows close to 'Mem
total' a few hours after boot.  

(My swap space is much too small according to all guidelines - but I
rarely need swap anyway - only 1 or 2 light users - I will fix this
some time.)

I think we have drifted off-topic.
dproc



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