Date: Wed, 09 Dec 1998 10:31:02 +0000 From: Tom Brown <tomb@netlink.co.uk> To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: netscape grinds to a halt and the power switch is the only option. Message-ID: <366E5166.D2BAFF96@netlink.co.uk>
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Hi, I'm running BSD 3.0 on a 350 pentium with 64 Mb of ram. Everything was going fine until I added a load of additional swap space last week. Basically I took 250 Mb from my spare slice and created a swap space with it. I then took the old swap space and turned it into a files system and remounted it as /root/ , because /root seems to get full, mostly because netscape put a load of stuff like mail in there. Anyway, things were going fine until I spawned another browser window in netscape and the following messages were generated . (Something suggesting more swap space at 124Mb used, I have 250 Mb) the only messages in /var/log/messages were: Dec 9 09:25:03 fatman communicator-4.07.bin: /etc/spwd.db: Invalid argument Dec 9 09:46:03 fatman /kernel: pid 1108 (kwm), uid 0: exited on signal 11 (core dumped) The cursor get really, really slow and my only course of action is to kill the X session as quickly as possible, otherwise the system come's to a complete standstill. I think I've broken something, but I love to know how to find out what is wrong. Thanks for your time, Tom Brown. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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