From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 29 15:27:13 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from web114.yahoomail.com (web114.yahoomail.com [205.180.60.86]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id ED1C315126 for ; Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:27:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from spiffdude@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <19991029223549.13307.rocketmail@web114.yahoomail.com> Received: from [151.200.18.43] by web114.yahoomail.com; Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:35:49 PDT Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:35:49 -0700 (PDT) From: Steven Hugg Subject: Re: netscape (or something?) thrashes system To: Woody Carey Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG The thrashing occured again, and I managed to catch it in time this time. Turns out it wasn't Netscape, but related -- xfstt (v0.9.10) was wigging out. It must have made a deal with the devil; kill -9 wouldn't end its miserable existence. I now do ulimit -m 65536 before I start xfstt. Is there a What-To-Do-When-A-Process-Grows-Insanely-Huge Mini-FAQ? ;-) Be careful out there... --- Woody Carey wrote: > > I have seen this a well, on 3.2-R, either running > netscape or > even just mpg123: > > $ mpg123 -b2048 /cdrom/*.mp3 > > After a while, I cannot even ever log in on the > console, I just have > to hit the switch. hmmm... ===== __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message