Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 2 Jun 1999 11:09:49 -0500 (CDT) | From | Rene Chaddock <> | Subject | Re: Everyone's a captain on a calm sea... |
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I'll bet money that netscape it going nuts and eating all your memory.
Slow response and disk thrashing isn't a lockup, its slow response and disk thrashing.
You could probably easily kill netscape and make all things good again if you could get yourself to a prompt. Have you tried telnetting in from another computer?
Rene
On Sun, 30 May 1999, Ted Rolle wrote:
> Well, it's been a well-known problem since as far back as RH 4.2. > It has persisted all this time -- I checked on #linux and others confirmed > it. > > Is there a 'back door' to get a terminal session? What about Alt-SysRq? > > My own systems have all been i486+. The lockup seems to occur at random > times when Netscape is up. There is constant disk activity during the > problem; response is slow -- 30 seconds for the cursor to move after > the mouse has moved -- sometimes. > > What information should I gather when the problem recurs? I _may_ have a > set of data that can reproduce the problem -- it is a message of my wife's > on usa.net that locked it up twice. > > I realize that this a "something's wrong, please fix it" request, but it > points to a long-standing problem: that of ending a rogue program. > Perhaps someone else can provide more information. > > On Mon, 31 May 1999, Alan Cox wrote: > > > > It seems that the OS should be able to detect a rogue application > > > and take some corrective action -- just letting me log in on a different > > > terminal to kill the offending process would be sufficient. > > > > Nod > > > > However before anyone can even guess what problems you are seeing, you need > > to provide some basic info - kernel version, architecture, general machine > > info, accurate report of the lockup > > > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >
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