Hi! I'm the maintainer of Hardware Monitor, or what's left of him,
On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 12:12 PM, Ernest Adrogué <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yesterday in the morning, I found my computer very unresponsive, with > the CPU fan in full-swing. It was barely usable, it didn't seem to react > to any key stroke or mouse activity. I tried to log in via ssh from > another computer, but I ran out of patience after waiting 5 minutes for > the password prompt to appear. At one point, the X server shut, as a > consequence of me having pressed CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE minutes earlier, and > everything went back to normal. Actually this is a bug in Debian - on a default install, a stray process should not be allowed to run away with all the memory causing a dead lock like this. But I digress. This has happened before when one of the things that Hardware Monitor is monitoring through libgtop returns weird results. This can get passed through to the drawing code, resulting in weird graphs that causes the drawing library used to go frenzy. I think I did put in some code at one point to alleviate this problem, but maybe it isn't effective in all cases. If this is what has happened in this case, I need to know what you're monitoring and what kind of graph you're using. -- Ole Laursen http://people.iola.dk/olau/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
