From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 22 16:00:43 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5FD51065674 for ; Fri, 22 Apr 2011 16:00:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cwhiteh@onetel.com) Received: from honeysuckle.london.02.net (honeysuckle.london.02.net [87.194.255.144]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9C788FC0A for ; Fri, 22 Apr 2011 16:00:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from muji2.config (93.97.24.219) by honeysuckle.london.02.net (8.5.133) id 4DA2FC0B0045000A for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 22 Apr 2011 16:49:31 +0100 Message-ID: <4DB1A38A.2010104@onetel.com> Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2011 16:49:30 +0100 From: Chris Whitehouse User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.9.2.9) Gecko/20100924 Thunderbird/3.1.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: User Questions References: <4DB00529.7060204@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4DB00529.7060204@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: how to protect my system from third party apps crashes X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2011 16:00:44 -0000 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