On Fri, May 19, 2000 at 11:58:32PM -0700, Dennis Soper wrote:
I've got a 6.2 box that has a process that occasionally starts using up 100% of the CPU. Killing X and even going into single-user mode doesn't fix the problem-- the only thing that works is a reboot.
I run gkrellm on my desktop, and I'm able to watch for things like this. It's usually Netscape, but sometimes fetchmail does this, too.
At the risk of sounding totally clueless, how do I identify the process? The machine is running 2.2.15, but 2.2.14 did the same thing.
Use top to identify the offender. Since it's almost always Netscape, I simply open up a terminal and type: # ps aux | grep netscape Which shows me something like: jpenning 3283 95.4 22.8 23112 14472 tty1 S 09:18 0:02 /usr/lib/netscape/472/communicator//communicator-smotif.real http://freshmeat.net/ So I follow it up with: # kill -9 3283 To kill the process. All's well after that :). -- -=|JP|=- "Why, oh, why didn't I take the blue pill?" Jon Pennington | Atipa Linux Solutions -o) jpennington@atipa.com | http://www.atipa.com /\\ Kansas City, MO, USA | 816-241-2641 x121 _\_V 6D04 39E0 CAE9 9ADA 2CA3 2EBE 898A 6C37 CA1E A29C -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/