Sometimes, usually on the exit of Communicator (version 4.61), I notice the CPU bar is pegged and the machine is slow. The problem is always ld-linux.so.2. Here is the top of a "top". 3:22pm up 1 day, 25 min, 1 user, load average: 1.13, 1.41, 1.26 70 processes: 65 sleeping, 4 running, 1 zombie, 0 stopped CPU states: 98.6% user, 1.3% system, 0.0% nice, 0.0% idle Mem: 127760K av, 124276K used, 3484K free, 57692K shrd, 2620K buff Swap: 133016K av, 416K used, 132600K free 48588K cached PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT LIB %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND 1118 bryce 17 0 30480 29M 9248 R 18M 97.2 23.8 1315m ld-linux.so.2 This happens about once a week under daily use. I must kill -9 the process. Kill -6 is not enough. Other coworkers see the same problem. We have not tried with RH 6.2 yet. -Bryce
(And won't try with 6.2 -- we're upgrade shy here)
This is netscape dying; you can solve this (sort of) by not running netscape against the compatibility libs. (rpm -e compat-libs compat-glibc will solve this; alternatively, you can upgrade to the latest netscape package (such as the 4.72 packages), or edit /usr/bin/netscape.) This could, however, cause other instabilities.