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Re: netscape crashes



On Sun, Oct 08, 2000 at 10:11:46AM -0500, Damian Menscher (menscher@uiuc.edu) wrote:
> On Sun, 8 Oct 2000, FIOL BONNIN Antonio wrote:
> 
> > The most fascinating thing is that now, most of the times it gets frozen,
> > when I kill the window (I'm uning WindowMaker, and choose the Kill option
> > on the window's menu), XF86_SVGA gets also killed.
> > 
> > In fact, I have observed that XF86_SVGA only gets killed IF its CPU use is
> > near to 100% at the moment I kill netscape. I mean, some of the netscape
> > crashes make X to be CPU hungry, and if I kill netscape then, X crashes
> > with it.
> 
> For the record, I've seen this with RedHat 6.x also.  It seems that if I
> clue in that netscape has gone berserk soon enough and kill it, I'm
> fine.  But if I wait a minute, it hogs so many resources the only option
> is a reboot.

Do you actually have to reboot, or can you just kill your X session?

I had to shut down a 35 day old WindowMaker session yesterday (I'd tried
kill -HUPping it, that didn't work).  But no, I didn't reboot:

 12:07pm  up 35 days, 17:40, 13 users,  load average: 1.00, 1.06, 1.04

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