netscape killing my machine
As of very recently, netscape has been acting up. A few times in the
past few days it has just about halted my machine, on one occasion I
needed to hard reboot. I just arrived back from class a few minutes ago
and I thought my comptuer was dead, turns out it was just going
REALLY slow. According to the cpu meter there was not much activity,
but when I checked the memory I saw that I had only like 12mb free of
physical (of 128) and like 40 of swap (of 300). No wonder things were
crawling. I could hear all the swapping as my drive churned. Anyways
ps aux showed that netscape was using 79%!! of my memory. I had to kill
-9 it, kill wouldn't work, but after that things have returned to
normal. What could be causing this? I use netscape for mail as well,
and I think that there is something messed up with one of my mailboxes,
but how does that cause this?
-Aaron Solochek
leko@cmu.edu
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