[plug] linux locking up

[Beau Kuiper]

Yes,

Konqueror is very nice, especially with kde 2.1.1 and kdelibs 2.1.2. It
works with netscape plugins and supports both javascript and java. It has
a VERY useful option in javascript that allows you to disable pop-up
windows without turning it off altogether.

If you don't like KDE thougth, I have heard very promising results from
recent mozilla snapshots (but I always have heard very promising results
with recent mozilla snapshots, so take it with a truckload of salt from
me)

I havn't run netscape for ages, and I am a happy person for it :-)

Beau Kuiper
kuiperba at cs.curtin.edu.au

On Mon, 21 May 2001, Simon Scott wrote:

> 	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
> 	Please respond to plug at plug.linux.org.au@SMTP at Exchange
> 	To:	plug <plug at plug.linux.org.au>@SMTP at Exchange
> 	cc:
>
> 	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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