-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Gary at home wrote:
Andy Stewart wrote:
It makes no sense to me that an application run as a normal user could lockup a machine.
Oh it's easy to crash a Linux machine with a fork-fest - any who can fork a process can do it, so a rouge app can certainly do the same.
What desktop are you running? I previously had similar problems with Gnome on my Athlon XP under Gentoo that mysteriously stopped after a few package updates...and I found no bug alerts for my symptoms at the time.
Any chance you can run top or some other real-time system monitor when the crash happens?
-- Gary
HI Gary, I am running KDE version 3.3.0 (SuSE 9.2). I could leave top running on a console to see if I can capture some useful info when the system locks up. I'll try that - thanks for the suggestion. I'd rather not give up KDE, but I could try blackbox for a while to see what happens. Thanks for the suggestions, Andy - -- Andy Stewart, Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA, USA http://www.wlug.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCpipsHl0iXDssISsRAuPGAJ0T6JzfgqbGuWrB05uuJaPMohGytACeIbwJ mHYyFd2lDE8JbLQ4FAXC7Dk= =sdOC -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----