From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Mar 20 7:32: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from kci.kciLink.com (kci.kciLink.com [204.117.82.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BCDC37B7FE for ; Mon, 20 Mar 2000 07:32:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from khera@kciLink.com) Received: from onceler.kcilink.com (onceler.kciLink.com [204.117.82.2]) by kci.kciLink.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15A12E881; Mon, 20 Mar 2000 10:32:01 -0500 (EST) Received: (from khera@localhost) by onceler.kcilink.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA30366; Mon, 20 Mar 2000 10:32:01 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from khera@kci.kcilink.com) From: Vivek Khera MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14550.17520.977561.161166@onceler.kcilink.com> Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 10:32:00 -0500 (EST) To: Randall Hopper Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Netscape pegs CPU on XServer kill In-Reply-To: <20000318110831.A34338@ipass.net> References: <20000318110831.A34338@ipass.net> X-Mailer: VM 6.72 under 21.1 (patch 8) "Bryce Canyon" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >>>>> "RH" == Randall Hopper writes: RH> I've got Netscape Navigator 4.72 built from ports. RH> In the past, killing the X server (e.g Ctrl-Alt-Bksp) killed Netscape. RH> Now, Netscape lives on and just hammers the CPU. RH> Anybody else seen this problem? What's the best fix/workaround? Make sure you kill Netscape first. This problem plagues me on BSD/OS and FreeBSD. I think Netscape doesn't notice the X connection is severed, which is a bug clearly in that application. I guess a workaround is to use a CPU time limit when running Netscape so that if it does go into a sprial of death, it will ultimately self-destruct when the CPU time limit is reached. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Vivek Khera, Ph.D. Khera Communications, Inc. Internet: khera@kciLink.com Rockville, MD +1-301-545-6996 PGP & MIME spoken here http://www.kciLink.com/home/khera/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message