On 07/21/2011 11:38 AM, Mick wrote: > Whatever Dale had on his machine must have infected mine! LOL! > > A 32bit x86 box with KDE4.6, running firefox-3.6.17 and xulrunner-1.9.2.17 > after a few hours and loads of tabs (sometimes up to 15 or so) eventually > hangs X. > > I can switch to a console and login as the user running the X session, then > try to kill the bloody thing with killall, kill -15 <pid> and kill -9 <pid>. > It won't barge. Mind you I haven't tried this as root.
I wonder if the machine is busy swapping because RAM is full. Run top and see how much swap is used or if some process is using 100% of CPU.
