2.6.24.3-12.fc8 memory issue?

[Frank Cox]

On Mon, 10 Mar 2008 13:55:06 +1100
Peter McNeil <peter at mcneils.net> wrote:

> G'day all,
> 
> did a yum update this morning which updated the kernel to  
> 2.6.24.3-12.fc8 then started my IDE and a largish program (java), as 
> soon as I hit the physical memory limit (2GB) the machine hangs 
> (freezes) sometimes the mouse freezes too. I have to power down to recover.
> 
> ...]$ uname -a
> Linux foo-foo.mcneils.net 2.6.24.3-12.fc8 #1 SMP Tue Feb 26 14:21:30 EST 
> 2008 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> 
> is this a known problem?

Do you have any swap file(s)?

What is the output of "free" (without the quotes).


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