This was happening on my previous computer (p233mmx, Octek mb, Stealth
3d 2000 video) along with installation hassles. The probs went away
with my new mc (AMD K6/2-450, Via chipset, the old video card) and I
even found I needed to turn ON PNP Auto in bios to get a clean
installation with no hangs. So the combination of mb, proc and
peripherals is important.
Bill.
Alan Shoemaker wrote:
>
> Larry....That's an often reported problem and I've never heard
> of a preventative measure against it short of "don't use
> netscape". Interestingly I'm running Mandrake 7.0 as well and
> use both netscape and netscape messenger all the time and have
> never experienced the problem (crossing my fingers and knocking
> on wood). By the way, the differences in 7.0 and 7.0-2 are only
> in the installation programs. Once the installation is complete
> they are the same.
>
> Alan
> Larry Varney wrote:
> >
> > I have Mandrake 7.0, not the -2 version. Sometimes, when I'm using
> > both Netscape Navigator and Messenger, I'll notice that things seem to
> > have frozen. If I open a terminal window and run top, I'll see something
> > called ld-linux.so.2, and I can sit and watch it start taking more and
> > more cpu up to almost 10%.
> > At that point, the only way to get Netscape to start working again, is
> > to do a kill -9 on the pid of that process. My question(s): what is it?
> > Why is it behaving that way, and is there a way to prevent it? Right
> > now, for instance, it's behaving itself with a %cpu of 0.0 and %mem of
> > 25.6.
> > Any help would be appreciated.
> > --
> > Larry Varney
> > Cold Spring, KY
> > http://w3.one.net/~lvarney
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