On Sat, 26 Feb 2000, Bob Nestor wrote:

> Are you sure you have enough SWAP space?  When the system runs out of 
> SWAP it starts shedding processes.  It's not to picky about which ones it 
> picks to kill, so if it happens to pick the "init" process you're left 
> with a system that you can't log into.  This has happened to me a couple 
> of times so I know it's possible, and the symptoms you describe are 
> exactly what I experienced when this happened.

Here's my output from swapctl -l:

Device      512-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity  Priority
/dev/sd0b       163840        8   163832     0%    0

which is 80MB of swap, same as my memory, and it never seems to touch it
either, i dont think I've ever seen any of it really get "used".  Maybe
this is part of the problem?

This is after an uptime of over 2 days w/about 100 login/logouts...(X and
ssh connections)

This never happened on the Q610 which had less memory in it (40MB i think
w/80MB of swap) but I've added a few things since then, the backups and
the list server.

Well an interesting thing to look into none the less.

Is there any way to get a Q840av into the debugging prompt at this point,
it has no reset or debug switches, just the power key and I dont know if
CMD-Power will bring it up either?

Thanks!

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