[KLUG Members] Redhat 9 hangs while browsing web and using GAIM

[Adam Williams]

> Hi,
> RH 9 hung when I was surfing the net and using GAIM .

Did X hang or the actual system?  Could you Ctrl-Alt-F1 to change
virtual consoles?  

It has been a really long time since I've had a non-Compaq/HP Linux
system actually hang-up/crash, but XFree86 does still get wigged out
occasionaly on some systems (for reasons difficult to determine).

> I was using Mozilla (default version thats shipped on RH9) and GAIM.
> I have an Athlon XP 2.0 GHz, with 256 MB RAM.  Video is 32 MB Asus on
> Motherboard.
> Swap has been set to 518 MB.
> I am getting a separate video card. Hope that fixes it.
> Any suggestions?

If you can VC change to a console tail /var/log/messages and
XFree86.0.log; and check the kernel rung buffer by running "dmesg".