ok...I can't help myself. Is CTL+ALT+BS a real keyboard command to recover
from a runaway process, or are you just being fecicious?
--
Mark
I love my Linux Box...
REASON # 2 ...X-windows is just a suedonym.
Registered Linux user # 182496
On Sun, 16 Jul 2000, Mage Grimau wrote:
>
> --- Civileme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Sat, 15 Jul 2000, you wrote:
> > > andy W wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Hi there,
> > > > We are currently switching from Windows98
> > > > to Linux for all our Internet machines. These
> > > > machines are primarily for web browsing and
> > > > email. A total of 15 machines. Now we need
> > > > access to web pages with java and when we access
> > > > such a page, Netscape freezes and the cpu usage
> > > > for ld-linux.so.2 goes up to 99% and the whole
> > > > machine slows down. I tried the unsupported
> > > > Netscape for linux 2.2 and it did the same thing
> > > > except netscape uses 99% of the CPU instead of
> > > > ld-linux.so.2. currently we are trying to
> > > > standardize on Netscape for all our email and
> > > > browsing for both Linux and Windows. I am now
> > > > ready to give up and go to win2K and back to IE
> > > > and outlook. Is there a way to fix this problem
> > > > or do we just remove Linux from the desktop all
> > > > together.
> > > >
> > > > The problem here is that we want all our users
> > > > both Win and Lin to use the same browser. not mix
> > > > explorer and opera etc.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks Andy.
> > > >
> > > > P3 500
> > > > 128MB ram
> > > > Mandrake 7.1
> >
> > I posted a short script that checked every 5 minutes for usage of
> > ld-linux.so
> > above 98% CPU time and killed (-9) every occurrence found. I think there
> > are
> > copies on both newbie and expert lists. It keeps the netscape from taking
> > over
> > your machine(s) but does not solve the problem.
> >
> > Netscape 4.73 available on the mandrake mirror sites also seems to avoid
> > the
> > situation
> >
> > A site which will cause this crash reliably every few minutes, and thus a
> > good
> > test bed, is www.wolfhome.com In fact it often kills the children and
> > leaves
> > just the library process running (and you can even restart netscape with
> > the
> > old library process chewing up resources). It has NEVER happened on 4.73
> > when
> > I was testing at that site. A second site which does a hefty number on
> > netscape is www.computergate.com. Trying an order with their electronic
> > shopping is a spiritual experience.
> >
> > Civileme
> >
> Slightly different situation, same symptom -
> I tried your script and it didn't work for me for either 4.72 or 4.73.
>
> First - all java is disabled on my machine.
> Second - it happens at random.
> Third - it doesn't matter what page I'm on.
>
> Normally, I keep Netscape open to
> us.f2.mail.yahoo.com/ym/<a_bunch_of_stuff_relating_to_my_yahoo_mail>
> and it works fine for hours. Suddenly my disk drive goes insane and top shows
> netscape at 99% (if I already have it running). Mouse cursor takes minutes to
> respond to mouse movement. Trying to launch anything to see what is happening
> is virtually impossible. Note: the page does NOT autoupdate, I have to click
> "check mail" to see new messages.
>
> Sometimes I will leave Netscape pointing at UnitedMedia.com if I was reading
> comics when something interesting happens on a MUD I'm playing. If it goes on
> for hours, the same result as the previous scenario.
>
> The only way I have found to prevent it is to kill Netscape if I'm not going
> to be changing pages, but that screws up my web-based email logins (I have
> several, and re-entering all the passwords is a pain).
>
> Ctl-Alt-BS only works sometimes, usually it doesn't.
>
> <It's amazing what bugs show up if you're actively on for 18 hours a day
> every day.>
>
>
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