Hi all: I've experienced the following phenomenon today:
While reading news from Emacs, I clicked on an URL, which opened a Netscape window. I browsed for some time, and then Netscape hung because of some Java applet, I think. I couldn't close it the regular way, so I had to xkill it. A couple of minutes later I noticed that my CPU load indicator shows continuous 100% utilization. I ran top, and sure enough, Netscape was still there consuming resources like hell. I killed it, and it turned zombie, but another process continued what it was doing - it looked like a call to Netscape that was executed from Emacs, containing the actual URL. So this call was PID 362, and Netscape (zombie now) 363. No matter what signals I sent to 362 and 363, I couldn't change anything. I tried kill and killall. I had to reboot because I felt sorry for my poor overworked overclocked Celeron. :) So, what do you generally do with unkillable apps? I know there must be a way to do it w/o rebooting. For what it matters, I run Debian2.1 with 2.2.6, XFree3.3.2, WindowMaker... Netscape is 4.5 Thanks for any suggestions, -- Arcady Genkin "I opened up my wallet, and it's full of blood..." - GsYDE
