On Thu May 10 14:04 , Gus Wirth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sent: >Ralph wrote: [snip] >> >> I was composing an email when X locked up on me. The clock >> continues to function, and the mouse pointer still moves, but >> the pointer doesn't change according to hover context and >> nothing responds, not even Ctrl-Alt-Delete. Fortunately >> Ctrl-Alt-F6 worked and I managed to figure out how to get a >> second X running on :1 . :0 still displays, but I have a >> navigator window on top and can't get to the email I was >> composing underneath. >> >> The email is not saved, but has got to be in memory somewhere. >> How do I find the temp file? I would really like to keep the >> text of that email. >> >> I'm on FC4. Mozilla version I *think* is 1.7.13 IIRC. >> >> >> ---- Msg sent via CWNet - >> http://www.cwnet.com/ > >Mozilla and Thunderbird both use mbox format files. As part of the >process of creating an e-mail they use a file called Drafts, located >somewhere under the ~/.mozilla directory. I no longer have the Mozilla >suite so I don't know where it is exactly. For Thunderbird it's under >~/.thunderbird/.default/Mail/Local Folders/ > >Try to see if you can find that file. If you are lucky it might contain >your message. There might also be a file that ends in a tilde ~, common >for some temporary files. Check those out also.
When I launch Mozilla, it's the browser that comes up. In this instance, its PID is 3195 (according to ps aux). Then I click on its icon for email client (PID 3197). Then I click on its button to compose a new email (PID 3202). They each show a START of 09:54,. 3195 and 3197 both show a TIME of 0:00,. 3202 shows a TIME of 4:06,. Well, here's what "ps aux" has to say about these three: USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND rafael 3195 0.0 0.2 4328 1080 ? S 09:54 0:00 /bin/sh /usr/local/mozilla/v1.7.13/mozilla rafael 3197 0.0 0.2 4328 1104 ? S 09:54 0:00 /bin/sh /usr/local/mozilla/v1.7.13/run-mozilla.sh /usr/local/mozilla/v1.7.13/mozilla-bin rafael 3202 0.7 9.2 105516 41612 ? Rl 09:54 4:07 /usr/local/mozilla/v1.7.13/mozilla-bin I don't understand all of it. But most of the time, "ps aux" says "Sl" for 3202, not "Rl". man ps says something about Running and Sleeping and multi-threaded. Still, it seems like it's using a lot of CPU for something that's mostly Sleeping, not to mention a lot of RAM for what probably amounts to 2 to 5 K,. That VSZ and RSS seem excessive. Surprisingly, I'm not into swap yet (well, 1/10 of 1%), even though at one point I had the frozen X on F7 and two more (on F9 and F10 launched from F6 and F5 respectively) all at once. Currently, only two X sessions are running (the frozen one on F7 and this one on F9). I'm kind of surprised that the CPU isn't more active. While not typing, it hovers around 2%. While typing, it jumps to around 6%. ---- Msg sent via CWNet - http://www.cwnet.com/ -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
