lbedford at wbtsystems.com said:
> I've had uptimes of 2 weeks+, until I played with helix-update, which
> froze the machine dead (kswapd was going mental, so I think OOM may have
> been involved)
Yep, I saw something similar in 2.2.x (although I killed it off before
things went down the jacks).
Recent versions of helix-update don't have this problem though, and now
they're using Akamai to store the update files -- it bombs along. I'm
very, very, impressed!
--j. (pretending to have MacOS X with the help of the Aqua skin ;)
--
Justin Mason Work: http://www.netnoteinc.com/ <jm at netnoteinc.com>
Personal: http://jmason.org/ <jm at jmason.org>
"It's true that some sharks get cancer. I said this in my book."
-- William Lane, author of _Sharks Don't Get Cancer_
Maintained by the ILUG website team. The aim of Linux.ie is to
support and help commercial and private users of Linux in Ireland. You can
display ILUG news in your own webpages, read backend
information to find out how. Networking services kindly provided by HEAnet, server kindly donated by
Dell. Linux is a trademark of Linus Torvalds,
used with permission. No penguins were harmed in the production or maintenance
of this highly praised website. Looking for the
Indian Linux Users' Group? Try here. If you've read all this and aren't a lawyer: you should be!
