[lug] It slows down

[David Morris]

When netscape kills my system, it is easy to find:  Just type in:

ps aux | grep netscape

And find out if netscape is using up 95+% of the CPU even though you
are not using it, or if its memory usage is something ungodly like 
100 MB (this second is very rare, but can happen too).

Then do a "kill -9 pid" on the pid number obtained from the previous
step.

Using "top" simply automates the process of monitoring CPU usage for
all processes.  Any time I have a problem on my system, I setup top to
run as I work so I can see anything that looks strange in
process-land.

And no, I don't have a particularly high regard for the POS borwser
netscape.  Sad part is that its the best out there, and I have tried
all I can get my hands on.

--David

On Fri, 20 Jul 2001, David wrote:

> I nearly did not post my mail since I was not sure that it was
> interesting enough, hmmmm.  Thank you everyone for the replies, all
> interesting in themselves, and especially interesting en masse, maybe
> Linux is not quite so reliable after all ==8-O  I
> shall indeed do some checking if&when I run into the problem again.
> 
> Here a couple of points that come up.
> 
> John Hernandez - my system has top and vmstat, but no sar, nor
> iostat.  What does that mean please?
> 
> Tim Klein - I was cracked once, a few months ago; now I subscribe to
> KRUD, hoping that tummy will save me.
> 
> David Morris - do you have a record of the name/pid/or? of that ghost
> process?  As I wrote before, Netscape is a prime suspect for me; maybe
> you have the solution.
> 
> dajo
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