On Mon, 11 Oct 2004 09:43:39 +0200, kh wrote: > I have used k3b successfully for some time, burning dvds, data music for > a while on both dvdrs and cd's. > But lately k3b sometimes when i burn mp3 get the whole fedora to a > standstill, the harddisk works overtime and cant even bring up the > screen after one hour working :) > I have been able to shutdown as root though(ctrl-alt+f2) and got no > errors through the shutdown process. > Today the same happened and i got a bunch of errors (when shutting > down), it told me that highmem was 0 and i was out of memory for each > gnomeapplet/program that had a processid (probably). > > I have fc2 installed with the 2.6.8-1.521 kernel, latest k3b, running > gnome (that followed fc2), latest xorg-x11, updated last night in hope > to solve this issue. > My box: athlon 1.33, 512 mb ram, nvidia geforce2 32 mb... > > My question is where to look in my box for some useful info that i can > try to solve this issue? im for sure running out of memory. > > Btw, could the xserver also be involved in this memory issue? Can you include the relevant portion of "rpm --query --all --last | less"? While trying to reproduce your problem, keep an eye on processes' memory usage. E.g. run "top" in a terminal window or use a graphical process monitor (GNOME has one, too). -- Fedora Core release 2 (Tettnang) - Linux 2.6.8-1.541 loadavg: 1.01 1.05 1.04
