Massive Mozilla 1.3 Slowdowns.. was Re: OT: Re: [lug] Letting Bush do the Arithmetic... Burning Books in Baghdad

[Jeffrey Siegal]

Case Jones wrote:
> Benjamin Manthey wrote:
> 
>> Well said. I would like to propose that this list have some sort of 
>> "terms of use." We
>> could then boot people who insist on posting offensive or spam-like off
>> topic posts.
>> --Ben
> 
> 
> Well that's an idea.  Anyway, while composing some off-list emails I 
> noticed that mozilla *really* slowed down, to the point where it was 
> taking 1 second per character to display.  I checked top, and it looked 
> like mozilla was the only process, and it was hogging a *lot* of CPU 
> time.  Has anyone else noticed this?  Also, there are tonnes of 
> "[mozilla-bin <defunct>] messages when I do a "ps ax". Has anyone here 
> noticed this?

I've noticed that from time to time but I don't know why it happens.