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>On any one day at any one time my system will go off on a disk
>access frenzy. It consumes all the CPU time and everything just
>comes to a stand still. I once sat around for an hour and thirty
>minutes and monitored this occurrence. At about every 6 minutes
>the drive accesses would lighten up enough that the clock display would
>update, the pointer would move (if the mouse had been moved),
>and maybe a screen would partially refresh but then the access frenzy
>would increase and everything else would go into a coma until the next
>6 or so minute interval (the intervals are not always at 6 minutes.
>this morning they were around 4 minutes.) I have gone away for hours
>with this happening and come back to it still going.
>
>One thing that seems to be common to this is that I have left Netscape
>running for a long period of time without a modem connection
>established to my ISP (i.e. overnight or during the day.) I can not
>remember a time when Netscape was not left running and this problem
>occurred.
I get the same problem with Netscape, as you say, always when the link goes
down.
I don't know how to stop it happening but I go to another virtual terminal
(Ctrl Alt F2), log on, and find out the process number using "ps aux | grep
netscape", then kill -9 the process number.
There's probably a better way but it seems to work!
Dan
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