On Thu, 2006-09-21 at 20:38 -0400, Dave Jones wrote: > On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 05:33:40PM -0400, RICHARD wrote: > > I'm using FC4 on a Dell Inspiron 2200 (for over 1 year). OOo has started > > crashing when working with inserting large picture files (although I've > > worked with them in the past without problem). > > You may be hitting a kernel bug where the out-of-memory killer triggers too soon. > (dmesg will tell you if so). I'm not sure if FC4 ever got fixed, but as it's > now in the hands of fedora-legacy, there won't be updates to more recent upstream > kernels. > > Dave > I just replied to another message. I think when I installed acpitool and tried to suspend (a couple days ago) that screwed something up. Do you think that upgrading to FC5 would solve the problem? I was hoping to wait for a larger hard drive before upgrading to FC5 but I don't know if I can wait another week until the drive shows up. Rick B.
