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Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2000 12:59:49 -0500 (EST)
From: Walter Campbell <wcampbel@botbay.net>
To: Daniel Frazier <dfrazier@Op.Net>
Cc: Randall Hopper <aa8vb@ipass.net>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Netscape pegs CPU on XServer kill
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As long as you close netscape first, so it exits on its own, it seems to
be sucessful.  West Chester University's public Linux and Sun boxes have a
cron job that runs that reaps any netscape not attatched to a tty (during
the middle of the night, when the labs are closed).  This may help here as
well

On Sat, 18 Mar 2000, Daniel Frazier wrote:

> Yeah, I've seen it where a communicator4 process is eating up like
> 90something percent of my cpu time.  I just killed that process and got
> into the habit of logging out of X, not using ctl-alt-bksp.  
> 
> Daniel Frazier
> 
> Randall Hopper wrote:
> > 
> > I've got Netscape Navigator 4.72 built from ports.
> > 
> > In the past, killing the X server (e.g Ctrl-Alt-Bksp) killed Netscape.
> > Now, Netscape lives on and just hammers the CPU.
> > 
> > Anybody else seen this problem?  What's the best fix/workaround?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Randall
> > 
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