Hi -
I am running RH 6.1 and your problem sounds exactly like mine. Usual
culprit is Netscape - the whole system freezes and I too have to do the
*dirty* shutdown. I am not sure if it is a ram thing; I have 64 megs. I
find for simple surfing I am using lynx more and more often - who needs
the .gif's and java.
I too would like to see this thread continue perhaps leading into a
discussion of alternative web browsers - I have the alpha version of
Opera, but it is real buggy.
Best regards,
Dick a.k.a. Hermit
On Sun, 11 Jun 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Can't offer any expertise here, but I'm interested in keeping the
> thread alive.
>
> One possible source of system freeze is RAM. The fact that NT manages
> to run ok and Linux does not is not necessarily significant. Different
> operating systems use RAM differently, and problems could show up with
> one and not the other. I've had this experience myself. I know of no
> reliable way to test RAM other than to swap some of it and watch for
> the effect if any.
>
> I can get a comparable system freeze with one bad application:
> Netscape. Sometimes I think there's a bug in Netscape's menuing, or
> that it fails to handle poorly designed Javascript, but in any case,
> everything freezes. Without keyboard or mouse input, I've no choice
> but to do a dirty shutdown. When I upgraded from RH 6.0 to 6.2, it
> seems the problem has disappeared (Netscape still hands occasionally,
> but I have keyboard input to kill the process). Not clear how a minor
> upgrade would solve this problem, but I'm reporting my experience for
> whatever its worth.
>
> Haines Brown
>
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