15 Aug
2005
15 Aug
'05
7:41 p.m.
On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 04:49:21PM -0400, Lee Revell wrote:
On Mon, 2005-08-15 at 16:42 -0400,
davidrclark(a)earthlink.net wrote:
when i only had 512 mb of ram this was definitely the case, even with 2x as much swap as
ram, the only way to get out of 'swap hell' was reboot, the system became so
unresponsive. really easy to happen with a memleak, or during compilation or a runaway
script etc..
windows on the other hand, only used up the first 50 mb of the 512mb (nlite-trimmed) and
never had this problem. ive never achieved the year-long uptimes of XP with linux, except
for servers i never touched and just ran a firewall or something.. always some weird
freeze where you can ping the machine but not ssh in, happens every so often, that or the
the swap hell described above..
2c
My experience has been that Linux audio requires
10 to 20 times as
many reboots as Windows audio, the opposite of all other applications.
The Linux kernels themselves, if left alone, are very stable.
Sorry dude, this is almost certainly PEBKAC. What piece of shit
hardware are you running that you need to reboot Linux more than
Windows?