Re: Tips to avoid full system restart?

[ABrady <xunil kc rr com>]

On 24 Nov 2002 19:35:44 -0500
Jonathan Gaudette <webmaster digital-drip com> wrote:

> Hi everyone.  I've heard a million times over that one of the
> advantages of Linux is that you only need to do a full system reset
> when you update/change your kernel.
> 
> However, I've often come in circumstances where either the full system
> slows down, or a certain aspect of the system crashes/slows down, as
> to a point where nothing I seem to try will fix it (restarting X;
> killing the process which was slowing down / crashing).  However, when
> I then go and reset the computer, whatever was acting up then acts
> fine, and begins to work normally.
> 
> What am I missing?  Is there some other way to reset these things to
> regain functionality?  I've been using RedHat now for about 5 months,
> and am loving it.  I was just wondering if I was missing something,
> and if anyone had any "tip & tricks".  Thanks!

Many times I'll go to runlevel (single user) and back to 3. On the
commandline:

init <runlevel>

Such as:

init 1

Then, while in single user mode, I check o see if something is still
running wild. I kill it if it is.

Sometimes I still have to reboot. Not sure what it is about 8.0, but I'm
having to reboot a lot more than I've ever had to do with previous
releases.

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