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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Fragility
From:       Matthias Kretz <madMatt () Kretz ! dyn ! ns1 ! net>
Date:       2000-09-12 20:49:38
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On Die, 12 Sep 2000, Uwe Thiem wrote:
> I opened Konqueror, unfolded a couple of folders in the treeview
> (think is was: / => /opt => /opt/qt2 => /opt/qt2/doc) and
> Konqueror (or something else, no chance to find out) immediately
> started to eat up *all* CPU (even the mouse pointer didn't react
> any more), hard disk access like hell (probably paging to death on
> a system with 192MB ram).
>
> I couldn't exit Konqueror, couldn't Ctrl-Alt-Backspace X, couldn't
> switch to a virtual console, couldn't access the box over network
> any more. All I could do was hitting the NT-stabaliser-button on
> that box. After I waited a long time for it to recover by itself.
>
> Off course, I have not bt because I have no core file. Fortunately,
> the system recovered nicely on reboot (since there was a real
> shitload of hard disk IO when I resetted the box I guess it really
> was paging; otherwise I would have got lots of fs repair messages
> during bootup).
>
> I restarted X and KDE and both came up smoothly. I tried to hit
> that bug (I assume it is a bug in Konqueror or one of the
> libraries) again (the box doesn't contain any valuable data
> currently; so I can mess it up completely): no luck!

I experienced similar problems with our computers at school. They run 
SuSE 6.4 (last year it was 6.3) and sometimes they work the HD like 
crazy. (I guess it's some kind o' cronscript - I don't experience it on 
my own RedHat Box. - it's kind of funny when all those ten computers 
work like crazy at the same time.) Well, normally this is no problem, 
but sometimes when you just did the wrong thing and this cronscript (I 
guess) starts, the computer hangs completely and there's no other way 
to regain control than to use the power switch (those Reset buttons 
just don't work anymore). This happened to often to be just a 
coincedence.

Hope this helps,
	Matthias

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