Subject: Re: "parked" processes?
To: Alan Barrett <apb@cequrux.com>
From: Steven M. Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
List: current-users
Date: 07/14/2007 08:10:00
On Sat, 14 Jul 2007 13:41:07 +0200
Alan Barrett <apb@cequrux.com> wrote:

> I earlier said that this problem had gone away after I recompiled
> everything, but I was wrong.  I still encounter hands in which firefox
> is unresponsive, and most of its lwps are in "parked" state.

It's odd that I mostly saw this on my laptop but not on a desktop
running the same version.  OTOH, the laptop did indeed have hardware
problems; it's currently running with half the RAM it had before and a
new motherboard....


		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb