Bonita -
I expect the problem is Netscape, rather than the Linux kernel. I've
found Netscape for linux to be very unreliable, and have often seen it
spiral out of control & chew up 90% of the CPU or more. Sometimes it
will right itself after a while, and other times I have to kill -9 it.
I have not been able to determine a specific cause of this bad behaviour
for Netscape, but it seems to happen more frequently when java and
javascript are enabled, so you might consider disabling those. You also
might want to check the output of top the next time you run into this
problem, and see if in fact Netscape is spinning out of control.
Best regards,
-Rob von Behren
Bonita Hatcher wrote:
>
> I've noticed in some recent versions that there will sometimes be
> interactions between xaudio 1.0.5 and netscape navigator 4.73.
>
> I do this sometimes in a directory full of the fruit of gtk_gnutella to
> set the mood for my kernel testing:
>
> xaudio *.mp3 &
>
> It plays mostly OK but sometimes xaudio will have some trouble decoding
> the file or something and I'll hear a high-pitched steady tone that will
> stop after a while.
>
> What's interesting is that I noticed this will happen when netscape is
> having some trouble downloading some webpages. Pressing the stop button
> will allow my listening pleasure to resume to its fullest.
>
> But what's especially interesting is that the stuck high-pitched tone
> will happen when nothing significant appears to be happening on the
> system, but I can unstick it by activating a netscape window. So this
> real-time audio program is completely wedged but just clicking a window
> in X fixes it.
>
> So could something be deadlocked in the kernel that gets unstuck by some
> kind of activity from userland?
>
> I could try in the latest release kernel to see if this happens there
> too.
>
> My distribution is slackware 7 on a compaq presario 1800T that is
> described at:
>
> http://www.goingware.com/laptop
>
> --
> Michael D. Crawford
> GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting
> http://www.goingware.com
> crawford@goingware.com
>
> Tilting at Windmills for a Better Tomorrow.
>
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