On 04/07/2011 09:45 AM, Anne Wilson wrote:
Ten years ago I was told that one of the strengths of Linux was that
if an
application went down it didn't take other processes with it. Sadly this no
longer seems to be true.
Hi,
well an application cannot bring the system down but sent all other
programs to swap so the system is slow down to a crawl.
I saw the above two or three times,
in a ocasion amarok grab a 1.5Gb of RAM (2Gb RAM total), RES field from
top so all other apps were sent to the swap, so the system was unusable
but I always have a top instance running in a terminal so with a littlr
patience I killed the amarok process, and the system eventually
recovered his responsiveness.
in other ocassion was vlc in that case, I will not be able to switch to
the virtual desktop having the top running, the graphics was stuck, but
I was able to login to ssh and after running top and press M I found vlc
and killed it, but that took 4 or 5 minutes.
Today I had used GIMP to make a scan of 200MB. When I tried to save
it it
started, but then went into Disk Sleep. XSane and, believe it or not, Libre
Office Calc became zombies, responding to nothing that I could find in System
Monitor. Eventually, remember previous episodes, I asked for a system
restart. The shutdown began, then hung, leaving me with no option but to
power down.
what format was saving to, I know which jpeg will be slow down the
system because that size and jpeg compression isn't practical
but maybe your problem is totally diferent, maybe next time if you run
top that give some light about the problem.
regards,
Gabriel