Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 27 Nov 1996 17:32:19 -0500 (EST) | From | Nathan Bryant <> | Subject | Re: Sudden strangeness in 2.1.3 |
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On Wed, 27 Nov 1996, Mike Wangsmo wrote:
> > Yesterday a real strange thing happend with 2.1.13 > I was running ppp and using Netscape and for some reason the sys load > jumped up to around 1 and the whole system started to crawl. I checked > the /var/log/messages and there was no strange processes list at the time > the load happend. It was so bad that I couldn't even switch to a virtual > console, the keyboard was not recognized without a massive time delay. I > finally swaped to another console and was able to log in as root and > check all processes as well as use top and nothing unusual was shown. > > It was really strange. I haven't run 2.1.13 again yet to see if I could > reproduce the strangeness, but I suspect that it was some strange sort of > fluke as I haven't had any other problems with 2.1.13. Any ideas?
Sometimes when Netscape is running a Java program it will spin and chew up all your CPU time. This is a flaw in Netscape, not Linux.
Your problem may be something else, though.
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