The intent of this post is to either:
- see if a solution/workaround exists, or
- request one if not.
Background (today, July 9)
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The power switch was the only way to regain control of my system...
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I'm running a stock LM7.1 with updates as of a week or two ago.
11:20
- system started getting sluggish
- lots of disk activity
11:39
- last clock update on KDE panel (character at a time)
- virt console login attempts fail (timeout)
- KDE task manager icon mostly green and so many lines
it appears shaded
- taskbar has so many tasks, it _looks_ like memory overwrite
is clobbering top of screen
- counted 160 "visible" tasks in [autohidden] taskbar
- clicked KDE task manager
11:50
- ctl_alt+bkspc not accepted
- can no longer switch to virt consoles
- KDE task manager screen starts to appear; task data appears
at a rate of about 1-2bits/sec (slow enough to guess how many
printf()s there must be... :^P
12:00
Can't take it anymore... power down...
Question
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Is there a way to place quotas, other than disk, on applications (Netscape in
this case)?
I'd like to limit NS' use of memory, CPU, and windows; the latter being the only
way I can think of to limit its use of X resources.
If not, then
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it may be time for "memquota", "cpuquota" (vs "nice"), and "Xquota"...
NS still has, IMO, a "memory leak" though they would probably call it "cache";
the problem is that its memory/disk cache limits don't affect that "cache" of
links accessed since NS was started... :^P
The good news: Linux refused to crash.
The bad news: Linux refused to crash netscape...
Pierre
