[clug] Ubuntu 10.04 windows close for no apparent reason

[Matt Joiner]

How do you get this killing behaviour? Everytime I get EOOM my system
gradually crawls to a halt and locks up.

On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 3:04 PM, David Tulloh <david at tulloh.id.au> wrote:

> On 15/05/10 10:41, jhock wrote:
> > Sometimes when I do a mouse click the interface that I am using closes
> > for no apparent reason.  For example, evolution closed when I deleted an
> > email. This has happened twice on different sessions and different
> > emails.
> >
> > Similarly Open Office 3.2 presentation closes every time I reach a
> > certain custom animation in a slide show. ...
> >
> You may be running out of RAM.
>
> Both applications you site aren't known for their low RAM use.
> Additionally, your EEE PC probably won't be running with swap due to the
> SSD hard drive.  So when you run out of RAM the kernel kills off
> something to free it up, normally the program you are using.
>
>
> David
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