Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2011 16:49:30 +0100 From: Chris Whitehouse <cwhiteh@onetel.com> To: User Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: how to protect my system from third party apps crashes Message-ID: <4DB1A38A.2010104@onetel.com> In-Reply-To: <4DB00529.7060204@gmail.com> References: <4DB00529.7060204@gmail.com>
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Sorry sent to OP only... On 21/04/2011 11:21, Michael wrote: > Hello. > > I'm having stability issues on my desktop system running FreeBSD 8.2-R > on amd64. It happens quite often that some application (say web browser) > goes nuts and totally locks-up my system. > > When it happens it looks like the application is frozen but I can't kill > it. WCPU usage goes up rapidly and after a while system doesn't respond > to anything than brutal hard reset. > > I guess it's not the system itself to blame, but it would be good if it > could handle misbehaving programs. What I'm looking for is some kind of > protection from system lock ups. I don't mind when the browser hangs, > but I don't want it to kill my whole system. > Any suggestions, hints, ideas please? > > I am aware that it's a workaround to the problem instead of a real > solution, but that's what is needed. > > Michael > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > I find sometimes viewing flash video with firefox causes the machine to appear to hang. In fact killing all instances of npviewer.bin frees everything up again. I usually have an xterm open just in case. Don't have a problem with other apps so this might not be the solution for you. My firefox is 3.6.10, flashplayer is linux-f10-flashplugin-10.1r85 and I'm on 8.1R x86 Chris
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