Reply to message from Jack Bowling on Mon, 27 Nov 2000, 11:11 <-0800>:
> ** Reply to message from Wolfgang Pfeiffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Mon, 27
> Nov 2000 18:23:14 +0100 (CET)
>
>
> <big snip>
> > *(1) = I only can assume it's been memory and swap being full: in such a
> > situation it was impossible to check them -- but IIRC from situations when
> > running Netscape: the whole system became slower and slower, I checked
> > memory and swap and found they were nearly completely full (with probably
> > just enough space to shutdown Netscape ...)
>
> Yes, an unfortunate aspect of NS. But when my NS 4.76 hangs (mostly from
> running concurrent java-enabled web pages), I just fire up gtop (System Monitor
> in gnome) and kill the NS process. Then for good measure, I kill the stale lock
> file in ~/.netscape and rm -rf all the cache files there too. It has NEVER EVER
> locked my whole machine. I am running RH 6.1 with 256 M of RAM. Not sure if this
> has anything to do with it not locking my box.
>
> [ ... ]
Jack,
did I understand this correctly: you do start gtop in a situation, when
your keyboard/mouse are still available ... ??
My real problem only started then when everything on X froze ... with no
keys, no mouse ...
Regards --
Wolfgang
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http://www.geocities.com/wolfgangpfeiffer/
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