From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Mar 18 11:58:34 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from isds.duke.edu (davinci.isds.duke.edu [152.3.22.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9738737B9FD for ; Sat, 18 Mar 2000 11:58:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sto@stat.Duke.EDU) Received: from cayenne.isds.duke.edu (cayenne.isds.duke.edu [152.3.22.11]) by isds.duke.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA25505 for ; Sat, 18 Mar 2000 14:58:30 -0500 (EST) Received: (from sto@localhost) by cayenne.isds.duke.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA08222 for stable@FreeBSD.ORG; Sat, 18 Mar 2000 14:58:29 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2000 14:58:29 -0500 From: "Sean O'Connell" To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Netscape pegs CPU on XServer kill Message-ID: <20000318145829.D8194@stat.Duke.EDU> Reply-To: "Sean O'Connell" Mail-Followup-To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20000318110831.A34338@ipass.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <20000318110831.A34338@ipass.net>; from aa8vb@ipass.net on Sat, Mar 18, 2000 at 11:08:31AM -0500 X-Organization: Institute of Statistics and Decision Sciences Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Randall Hopper stated: > 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? I simply added a few ulimit commnads to the netscape wrapper script to prevent things from running on too long and core dumps. ulimit -c 0 ulimit -t 1800 S ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Sean O'Connell Email: sean@stat.Duke.EDU Institute of Statistics and Decision Sciences Phone: (919) 684-5419 Duke University Fax: (919) 684-8594 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message