Date: Wed, 18 Feb 1998 08:35:15 -0500 From: "Alfred Perlstein" <perlsta@cs.sunyit.edu> To: "Alex Le Heux" <alexlh@funk.org>, <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: weird things happening Message-ID: <023101bd3c72$0d110740$0600a8c0@win95.local.sunyit.edu>
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i don't really know, but i've been doing things and noticed that my machine
was lagging about, anyway netscape seems to like to leave a copy of itself
in memory and steal 50% of the CPU... i don't know why or how it happens,
but a simple:
killall -9 netscape
does the trick for me.
-Alfred
-----Original Message-----
From: Alex Le Heux <alexlh@funk.org>
To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG>
Date: Wednesday, February 18, 1998 1:13 AM
Subject: weird things happening
>Hi,
>
>My machine has been experiencing mysterious hangs for the past week. At
first
>I suspected Luigi's new drivers, or the soundcard (as that was the last
thing
>I had modified), but they both turned out to be innocent. Investigation
>indicated that it would freeze the moment it tried to swap.
>
>I emailed to freebsd-current about this, and John Dyson responded saying
that
>there were several patches to the vm system underway. The vm system is way
>beyond me, so after looking at it for a while I decided to wait for those
>patches.
>
>Today however I noticed something interesting. This might be normal
>behaviour, if so, I would like to know what causes it.
>
>While running without swap, in 48 mb, trying to stress the memory system,
>I fired up: X, afterstep, two copies of netscape and two copies of wp7
(yuch).
>
>The machine slowed down to a crawl. Even moving the mouse from one side of
>the screen to the other took about 30 seconds. I had top running in an
xterm,
>and it would update that window at the blazing speed of about 2 chars/sec.
>
>The load hovered somewhere around 5.
>
>After killing one of the netscapes everything returned to normal.
>
>During all this there was no disk activity whatsoever.
>
>If this is normal behaviour, I'd be interested in knowing what the system
>is so busy with, and if it's not, someone else might be interested in
hearing
>about this, hence my post.
>
>Cheers,
>
>Alex
>
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