I agree. Netscape is really horrible, but there doesn't seem to be much choice
right now. Heck, I can't even use my addresses without it crashing. The 6.1
release seems much more stable, but then again it has its own set of problems.
Is it too much to ask for a decent web browser?
brian
Ryan wrote:
> On a quick side note...
>
> Is it just me... or is the entire linux community happily putting up
> with this (serious) flaw in netscape? I can't keep it open more than
> 12 hours of casual use, or sometimes more than 20min of heavy browsing,
> without it going haywire and sucking up system resources like this...
> or freezing... or doing something it's not supposed to.
>
> I'm crossing my fingers that I'm out in the dark here... and that there's
> some kind of either fix, or big "lets fix netscape" group out there.
>
> Or maybe I'm just crazy? Anyone know something that I don't?
>
> .ryan
>
> On 08-Jun-2000, Marisa Mack wrote:
> > those ld libraries are most likely being used by netscape. every once in
> > very short while, netscape eats up every resource it can find. you can
> > safely kill those processes, and things should return to normal.
> >
> > marisa
> >
> > On Thu, Jun 08, 2000 at 11:50:00AM -0400, feng graced me with:
> > > Hi Everyone,
> > >
> > > Recently, I noticed my Redhat 6.1 system is running much slower than
> > > before.
> > > Doing everything is slower. Opening the gnotepad takes 15 sec. Running a
> > > command like 'rpm -Va | more' takes about half an hour.
> > >
> > > I checked the process management, it shows two runing items called
> > > (id-linux.so.2) under the colum of CMDLINE take almost 90% of cpu time.
> > > What are those ( id-linux.so.2)? Can I kill them all?
> > >
> > > Where should I start to troubleshoot my system? Is there something
> > > running behind which I don't know? Thank you for you help.
> > >
> > > feng
> >
> > --
> >
> > "On a normal ascii line, the only safe condition to detect is a 'BREAK'
> > -everything else having been assigned functions by Gnu EMACS."
