On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 4:53 PM, Joe Zeff <joe@zeff.us> wrote:
On 06/21/2012 04:46 PM, Richard Vickery wrote:
You might not need to be as drastic. If you do top and view the one - or
so many - program(s) that use an incredible amount of resources, then
remove that/those program(s), you should be fine.

So far, when I've had my desktop freeze I've never been able to get to either a terminal or a CLI to do that.

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sounds like my experience, although, I was thinking - for yourself - of calling top at times like this current moment, and removing anything that, say, uses over 20%, certainly over 25%