Is there a memory leak in Mandrake?

dejudicibus · 12-27-2003, 11:34 AM

I recently installed Mandrake 9.0 on a laptop. If I play, for example, 15/20 minutes with Bounching Ball game, system just freeze. No way to go ahead but switching off the computer. Same occurs with several others applications: too many to be just the application themselves. It looks like a memory leak. Is it?

wapcaplet · 12-27-2003, 11:51 AM

Sounds more like a hardware problem - bad RAM, perhaps, or some kind of power supply problem, especially if it freezes up at random, regardless of what you're doing at the time.

eantoranz · 12-27-2003, 12:11 PM

Have you checked /var/log/messages? Take a look at what it says.

eantoranz · 12-27-2003, 12:16 PM

Oh, and it does sound like a hardware problem. I suffered like that due to a F***ing hard drive. If it's the hard drivem try mounting synchronously.

You're welcome.

dejudicibus · 01-01-2004, 08:40 AM

Thank you everybody for help. I'll look at message log and check for power supply saving options. In case I will not fix this, I'll upgrade to 9.2 to see if something change. Laptops are always a problem unless you use a pre-installed operating system.

DdJ