[ale] something's eating cycles

[Jonathan Rickman]

On Mon, 1 Jul 2002, Sean Kilpatrick wrote:

> A stupid GUI KDE bit of software is sitting on my taskbar and monitoring
> memory and processor useage. It nicely shows me a sad face when the
> processor gets overloaded. cute! useful, NOT. Every once in a while it
> pops up a window telling me that solitaire is using to much of the
> processor or that Mozilla is doing the same. In each case neither program
> is active, nor has been for hours. On the taskbar, but idle.

If mozilla is running, or has ran recently...regardless of whether it is
"active" or not, that's where I'd start. I'm not trying to beat a
dead horse. I really think that's where your problem is. Next time this
happens, close mozilla, bring up a command prompt and run
'ps ax|grep mozilla-bin' without quotes and if it reports anything other
than 'grep mozilla-bin', type 'killall -KILL mozilla'. Trust me, mozilla
is a very ill behaved application under the vast majority of circumstances.
Long ago I learned to always kill mozilla from the command prompt.

-- 
Jonathan Rickman
X Corps Security
http://www.xcorps.net


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