[plug] linux locking up

[Simon Scott]

	Here's a thought :)

	Run nice netscape :) It helps, and you wont notice a drop in
performance.

	Either that or write a small script that will killall netscape when
more that say 5 netscape processes appear in the list.


	Or stop using netscape altogether..... I use Konqueror now and have
never looked back.




	From:	Bernard Blackham <bernard at blackham.com.au> on 20-05-2001
08:45 PM
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	Subject:	Re: [plug] linux locking up

	On Sun, 20 May 2001, russ wrote:
	> locks up completely. The mouse is still visible and moving but
nothing
	> responds at all.
	> 
	> I ctl-alt-F1 to log in as root and try to kill it but all I can do
is
	> type in root then enter and the password request never happens.
I've
	> tried all the consoles from 1 to 6 both as root and as myself but
	> nothing. I have to turn off the power and restart.

	Russ,

	Sounds similar to some problems I had - some runaway process (ypbind
and
	netscape most commonly) kept spawning child processes continually
until
	the load average was >80 and the system was essentially
unresponsive. At
	the consoles I could go as far as type in root and it'd take about
half an
	hour for a password prompt to come up.

	Now I just keep an xload and a top window open showing me any
hogging
	processes and kill them asap. You could keep "top" running in one
console
	whenever the computer's on and when it does seem to freeze switch to
that
	console and see if there's anything sucking the computer down, then
see if
	the bug with that program has been seen before, update it if need
be.
	Perhaps Ctrl-Alt-Backspace will also get you out of trouble (brings
down
	all of X and kill's all it's client windows too).

	I might be way off track here. The symptoms just sound familiar to
what
	happened to me.

	Regards,

	Bernard.

	-- 
	 Bernard Blackham
	 bernard at blackham.com.au





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