From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Dec 23 13:30:05 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA10657 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 23 Dec 1998 13:30:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gershwin.tera.com (gershwin.tera.com [207.224.230.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA10651 for ; Wed, 23 Dec 1998 13:30:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (tao.tera.com [207.108.223.55]) by gershwin.tera.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA04623 for ; Wed, 23 Dec 1998 13:29:26 -0800 (PST) Received: (from kline@localhost) by tao.thought.org (8.8.8/8.7.3) id NAA13848 for hackers@freebsd.org; Wed, 23 Dec 1998 13:30:38 -0800 (PST) From: Gary Kline Message-Id: <199812232130.NAA13848@tao.thought.org> Subject: observation.... To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1998 13:30:38 -0800 (PST) Organization: <> thought.org: public access uNix in service... <> X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This might be better sent to -question except that it really isn't a question; just an observation. Or discovery. For at least two years, on rare occasions, my system would freeze up. Power-cyclying was the only way back from this sudden death. It just happened again and I thought: Nuts!! But I rlogged in from my other cconsole to find things entirely alive. And I found the culprit. xscreensaver; ps ax shows that it spawned decayscreen. I was running netscape; killed it. Nada; then killed decayscreen and instantly every xterm came back to life. So one more of Life's mysteries solved; it wasn't the kernel. Hmm. gary PS: I'm going to be un-reachable for the next N days as my company moves across town. The network is going down 24dec98 and back up:: dunno. -g -- Gary D. Kline kline@tao.thought.org Public service uNix To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message