On Sun, Oct 08, 2000 at 10:11:46AM -0500, Damian Menscher ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sun, 8 Oct 2000, FIOL BONNIN Antonio wrote: > > > The most fascinating thing is that now, most of the times it gets frozen, > > when I kill the window (I'm uning WindowMaker, and choose the Kill option > > on the window's menu), XF86_SVGA gets also killed. > > > > In fact, I have observed that XF86_SVGA only gets killed IF its CPU use is > > near to 100% at the moment I kill netscape. I mean, some of the netscape > > crashes make X to be CPU hungry, and if I kill netscape then, X crashes > > with it. > > For the record, I've seen this with RedHat 6.x also. It seems that if I > clue in that netscape has gone berserk soon enough and kill it, I'm > fine. But if I wait a minute, it hogs so many resources the only option > is a reboot.
Do you actually have to reboot, or can you just kill your X session? I had to shut down a 35 day old WindowMaker session yesterday (I'd tried kill -HUPping it, that didn't work). But no, I didn't reboot: 12:07pm up 35 days, 17:40, 13 users, load average: 1.00, 1.06, 1.04 -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://www.netcom.com/~kmself Evangelist, Opensales, Inc. http://www.opensales.org What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org GPG fingerprint: F932 8B25 5FDD 2528 D595 DC61 3847 889F 55F2 B9B0
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