Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 05:59:53 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson <cliff@raggedclown.net> To: Christopher Farley <chris@northernbrewer.com> Cc: guenther.schmidt@bigfoot.de, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Processes that have been terminated still resident in system! Message-ID: <20010115055953.A976@raggedclown.net> In-Reply-To: <20010114175942.A26240@northernbrewer.com>; from chris@northernbrewer.com on Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 05:59:42PM -0600 References: <3A6237BF.2192ED1D@web.de> <20010114175942.A26240@northernbrewer.com>
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On Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 05:59:42PM -0600, Christopher Farley wrote: > Guenther Schmidt (gue.schmidt@web.de) wrote: > > > I'm using 4.2 Stable. I found that when I finish with certain programms > > I can still see them taking up rescources under top. Namely netscape and > > Staroffice. > > > > This continued even after I logged out from X, process was still > > resident. > > > > Is this because the programs are natively linux programms or is it just > > something that happens occasionaly? > > It shouldn't have anything to do with them being Linux programs. It > probably has to do with the fact that Netscape and StarOffice are > gigantic and buggy. I wouldn't worry too much about it unless it happens > consistently. I can vouch for this with Netscape, also under Linux and Sunos it sometimes just doesn't know when it has outstayed it's welcome ... For information: Netscape is approximately 11 million lines of code.. all dedicated to taking over every dribble of resource on your computer and hanging on like grim death to it ... Cliff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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