Hi All, I had an experience today. I opened www.kumudam.com (an Indian vernacular language site) using opera7.11 in RH7.3 (Celeron 900 MHz, 128 MB RAM with IceWm desktop, not the KDE) with the fonts ( kumudam.ttf) installed. The site did not open fully and there was lot of disk thrashing going began. I thought of giving "top" to see the offending program, but no way. Nothing registered, mouse clicks, key strokes, nothing. After waiting for more than 7 minutes, I had no other go other than a hard reset. Then I was reading "All about kernel 2.6 " in Linux For U Magazine (www.linuxforu.com , a magazine for linux users in India ) by KT Ligesh in which a paragraph about old linux threads was mentioned. It was mentioned that it can take about 15 minutes for that old threading to start &stop 1,00,000 threads. With new Native Posix threading Library (NPTL) an eightfold improvement is expected.
Anyway all this geeky jargon is way over my head, my only doubt is whether such a phenomenon is the one causing problems like I mentioned in first paragraph. At that time apart from Opera only gedit was open and three more terminal windows. I was having this problem of runaway processes when I used KDE , that's why I switched to IceWm, but even here ? Or am I looking in the wrong direction? Any more light on the problem faced as well as this improved threading in Linux by Gurus in this group will be very much appreciated. N S Srikanth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
