The bit about having to reset the machine in Linux is the part that
worries me. I remember having too do the same thing when gnuplot locked my
machine solid, for two days!! (I was living in the hope that it will
'recover'). The error then was out memory exhausted (128M + 32M swap) ...
well I was tasking it however, the fact that all other terminals were
inaccessible did bother me a bit ..
On Sun, 20 Dec 1998, Eric Lee Green wrote:
> Hello all. Has anybody else noticed this? All versions of Netscape
> that I have used have a memory leak in the input box, so I get to test
> what happens when VM is exhausted on a regular basis :-).
>
> 2.0.36: System goes into a bit of a swap storm, gets very sluggish, but I can
> switch to another window and kill Netscape.
>
> 2.1.131: System goes into a furious swap storm, when try to switch to
> another window "X" locks up, cannot move mouse pointer, reset switch
> time.
>
> Has anybody else noticed this?
>
> --
> Eric Lee Green eric@linux-hw.com http://www.linux-hw.com/~eric
> "Linux represents a best-of-breed UNIX, that is trusted in mission
> critical applications..." -- internal Microsoft memo
>
>
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