On Thursday 21 Jul 2011 23:31:19 walt wrote: > 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.
That's the thing, no swap was being used at the time. Firefox was using something like 20% CPU (but can't recall for sure). I'll keep an eye on it next time. -- Regards, Mick
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