On Fri, 16 Nov 2001 02:30:45 -0800 (PST) "nate" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Anthony Campbell said: > > I'm still desperately seeking the cause of intermittent total > > lockups which occur every few days, always when I'm online. I > > think, but not sure, that Netscape (4.77) has always been running > > at these times. Kernel 2.4.13ac at present. > > > > Has anyone seen this? > > i haven't. ive never had netscape bring down a unix OS. ive > used it on half a dozen different unix platforms. i have > had it lock up and i would have to kill it. i don't think > ive ever had it adversely affect X itself either. ive been > running it everyday(4.x) on linux/unix for quite a while. > > id be more inclined to blame the kernel. i personally wont > touch a 2.4 kernel till sometime late next year(i was > planning on testing at the end of this year but with all > the recent VM talk its made me decide to push back another > year). its no secret that netscape is a memory hog ..all > of my serious machines have at least 512mb ram. some have > 768 or 1GB. I did and still see lots of lockups, two dozens a day on some 40 machines. It doesn't seem to be kernel related, as I observe them with any kernel from 2.2 on. Most of the time it seems that java is envolved. Actually, I believe, these are not really lockups but just exponentially growing CPU loads. I can save the machine if I catch it at times and kill the growing process. I'm using ulimit, which helped a lot (I have somewhat more time trying to catch it), but didn't resolve. The same is happening with Mozilla, more frequently on specially brain-dead sites. Another possible cause, in my case at least, might be some secret external influence (bad/irregular energy supply, temporary heat, electromagnetic fields, etc.? causing sometimes even to burn the powersupply of a hub) which I haven't been able to identify in a year. So, sorry, this is rather just a ``Me Too''. -- Christoph Simon [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- ^X^C q quit :q ^C end x exit ZZ ^D ? help .
