Re: [suse-security] Reasons for a system to freeze?

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While this might not be a security related problem I'd appreciate any hints/tips/advice from the experts here.

Did you test to open the mail again after the reboot? maybe its some mad code in it? Netscape also has many memleaks .. maybe you've just read the mail on the wrong day for netscape ;) i would check the mail for some mad code. did you see the load of the maschine?

I tried opening the mail (cautiously) and it worked fine ... hmmm. It's a php-general-list-digest, so it does contain code snippets. I was not able to see the machine load. I tried top, but the command did not produce any output. This was about the same time, my ssh died. Thanks, .ps