On Mon, 9 Jun 2003 16:15:09 -0700 rikona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered:
> I've had a few apps stop running/crash. It does not seem as though > there are subsequent consequences - I can seemingly reopen the app and > continue. In Win, this is sometimes a problem. Can apps foul up the OS > such that it has to be rebooted? Any other things to look out for on a > crash? How will I know when I have a real problem? the only problem I've ever seen is that when you kill the app, it keeps an instance running in the background (usually Galeon, why I keep putting up with that browser I don't know...). you can see if a process is "running away" by running "top" (ya, I know, you prolly already knew that) and seeing if anything is maxing out your cpu. otherwise, if you kill an app, the worst thing that could happen is the lost data, I have never heard of an app hosing the OS unless it was perhaps being run as root. -- Joehill Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: http://nodex.sytes.net 19:15:26 up 6 days, 17:19, 5 users, load average: 0.35, 0.12, 0.03
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