> > anyone experienced anything like this ?
>
> Only when playing with broken SQL queries in PostgreSQL or text processing
> with PHP cgi. ;)
i did some google searching and found most people attribute experiences
like this to navigator...
> The only way to find out is to see what's running. Sounds as if something's
> grinding your machine's CPU and swap. This is one reason why I use
> Bubblemon... At a glance you can see how your machine is doing, and what's
> changing. Kick off a broken query and you see the CPU boiling, then your RAM
> filling up *really* quick. :) It just goves you a bit of warning so you can
> get out before meltdown.
sounds like something to get my hands on...
> Ctrl-Alt-Backspace not working?
no. :( the three fingered salute strips the task bar and desktop icons
as well as all windows but the background pattern was left behind... ?!?
i just gave up and rebooted, but when i did the background pattern seemed
to shift from side to side a few times as the machine took itself down...
> Is the machine network accessible? SSH in, top it first to see what's going
> on, and then kill off whatever's causing the trouble.
i could login in okay... that's how i got the plea for help out... :)
top showed no processes running that i could point a finger at...
> If you can't SSH in, you've managed to kick it's arse. :)
i only wish it had died that much... then i wouldn't have felt so bad
about the reboot:
# uptime
10:32am up 15 min, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.01, 0.03
later
marty
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because I'm me." - Corduroy, Pearl Jam
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