The culprit is a part of netscape called ld-linux.so.2 that goes berserk
every so often and hogs cpu etc. Go into task manager and kill it (it
will kill netscape too) and things will return to normal (till the next
time). The only permanent solution at the moment is to replace your
netscape with the 128 bit version.
Bill.
Sevatio Octavio wrote:
>
> I have yet to figure out why my Mandrake 7.0-2 does this... Perhaps some of you
>will have a solution.
>
> This happens in both Gnome and KDE. When I'm using several apps at once
>(Staroffice, Gimp, Toppage, Netscape - not necessarily all
> of these at one time), some process would just take over and use all the CPU to
>process something that makes the harddrive work real
> hard. Meanwhile I can barely get the mouse or keyboard to respond. Usually not
>enough of a response to do anything. If I don't
> reset the machine, this can go on for up to an hour and then it would end up at the
>Penguin Login prompt. What is causing this?
> It's driving me crazy!!!
>
> Thanks,
> Seve
