On Thursday 04 November 2010 12:11:45 Matthew Dillon wrote: > 'ps axlH' (H includes all threads) might give better results. It > won't be sorted but you may be able to pick out the runaway. It > could be firefox (xulrunner-bin).
It is indeed Firefox. One of the threads had been running 66 minutes since I restarted Firefox this morning. (The desktop was rebooted by the UPS, which I have to replace, but the laptop, which is running Firefox, kept running.) I closed one of the windows and the load average went down. Why doesn't top show the total of all threads in a process? Btw, I had to add "w" to the ps command to see the whole command line. Pierre -- The Black Garden on the Mountain is not on the Black Mountain.
