[Gllug] No access to GUI for Mandrake Linux!

[Ian Norton]

Pete Ryland wrote:

>On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 09:23:58 +0100, Sabah Iftikhar wrote:
>  
>
>>I'm having problems with my Mandrake Linux 10.1. Having left a large
>>simultation program running,I find that I am not able to gain entry to the
>>graphical user interface. I am however, able to work on the text mode. The
>>simulation had a "segmentation fault" and crashed out. 
>>The memory for the partition of the drive I was using was about 6G and it
>>is full according to 'df' in bash. I suspect that the program I was
>>running had some kind of memory leak (up to 1G).
>>I have tried the 'find' function to look for a file +10000k but nothing
>>shows up. I think I need to free the memory by removing a file/s generated
>>by the simulation programme.
>>
>>Any suggestions? (please let me know if I need to include more details.)
>>    
>>
>
>Hi Sab,
>
>It seems you are getting confused between hard disk space and physical
>memory.  This is worth reading up on.
>
>If a still-running program has a file open that you have since deleted, the
>file will still take up space on disk until that program either closes the
>file (a SIGHUP on a lot of daemons will cause them to close and re-open
>files) or dies.  If all else fails, try rebooting.  This will at least
>verify that it is this phenomenon, if the space is reclaimed.
>
What makes you think he is confused?  if a program using 1gb of ram dies 
it could well leave a 1gb core
file and fill up his disk. root will still have grace space though,

Ian
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