From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 21 21:53:56 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pioneernet.net (mail.pioneernet.net [207.115.64.224]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C00837B416 for ; Wed, 21 Nov 2001 21:53:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from chip.wiegand.org [66.114.152.128] by pioneernet.net (SMTPD32-6.06) id A2FF4AB5013E; Wed, 21 Nov 2001 21:54:07 -0800 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Chip To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: locked up browsers and too many processes running? Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 22:02:24 -0800 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01112122022400.76143@chip.wiegand.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I came across a bit of a problem a while ago - in netscape and opera both, I tried to download a file from a site, but both browsers locked up. It was just an image, nothing out of the ordinary. Netscape 6 (linux version) locked X completely. I telneted into the box from another machine and was completely unable to kill the process, or any mozilla related processes. The mouse would move just fine, but clicking on anything would result in nothing happening. I finally just hit ctrl-alt-bkspc to kill X altogether. I was still running top via telnet and noticed that the processes did not go away, for mozilla or for opera, or for a few other X apps that were open. I am still unable to kill those processes. I have not rebooted and don't want to, shouldn't need to. In top it shows almost 400 processes, 1 to 3 running, 6 zombies and the rest sleeping. Is this okay? What should I do? Anything? (My boxes uptime is at 109 days and I really really don't want to reboot it.) :-) -- Chip W. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message